Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Birthday. Sydney Farrar, father of Geraldine Farrar; in Ridgefield, Conn. Age: 70. To Father Farrar's party went his daughter and many a retired professional baseball player who had known "Syd" Farrar when he played with the Philadelphia National League team.
When half the banking resources of the commercial filter of the country's richest, most literate agricultural State become concentrated in one bank, that situation is significant. The State is Iowa-farm products $750,000,000 yearly, industrial products $800,000,000. The filter is Des Moines, population 151...
In Seattle, likewise, the same tendency was at work last week. There was announced the merger of three banks. First National, Dexter Horton National, Seattle National. This merger, with $10,000,000 of capital surplus and undivided profits, will have total resources of over $119,000,000. What is more...
Des Moines is a city of a few dozen men. They operate its dozen banks (total resources $80,000,000), its 43 life, fire and casualty insurance companies (total assets $209,684,400), its 400 manufacturing establishments,* its newspapers, national magazines (Meredith Better Homes & Gardens [circulation 1,000,000] and...
In 1920 the Government started anti-trust suits against the four national meat packers-Armour & Co., Swift & Co., Wilson & Co., Cudahy Packing Co. There was no trial, for the packers went into court and consented to having a decree issued forbidding them to deal in other products than meat and...