Word: northwester
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Northwest Bancorporation acquired six new banks. Total banks in the group became 76, with combined resources of more than $440,000,000. Capital stock of Northwest Bancorporation will be increased from $75,000,000 to $300,000,000 and 150,000 shares offered to stockholders...
...Including Harris M. Hanshue and James G. Woolley, Western Air Express; L. H. Mueller, Varney Air Lines; Col. M. H. Britten, Northwest Airways; Paul Henderson and Lester D. Seymour, National Air Transport; Phil Johnson, Boeing Air Transport; George Schierberg, Robertson Aircraft Corp.; Gen. John F. O'Ryan and James A. Walsh, Colonial Air Transport; Clifford Ball, Clifford Ball Air Lines; Hainer Hinshaw, Universal Air Lines; Alex H. Beard, Continental Air Lines...
...when the I. W. W. first showed it's head in the northwestern states, it's members were promptly termed communists, menaces to organized society, and deserving of immediate exportation. It's tactics were denounced on every side. Yet those familiar with the labor conditions in the northwest, both before the war and of recent years, cannot deny that the situation, from the point of view of the worker, is much improved. In almost every said of large scale industry, conditions of living, wages, and hours of employment have been bettered for the working...
...vagrant hurricane at length skirted the southern tip of Florida, blew down grapefruit trees, electric lines, a few buildings. Three Floridans were electrocuted by downed wires. Then it veered northwest. While relieved Miamians took down their barricades, cowering residents of Pensacola and Mobile frantically prepared for the worst...
...this last week's Detroit merger was an example, as was the Corn Exchange Bank and Trust Co.-National City Bank consolidation (TIME, Sept. 30). The other current is the grouping of separate units through one controlling corporation. Greatest examples of this are the Transamerica Corp., the Northwest Bancorporation, the First Bank Stock Corp., the Guardian Detroit Union group, the New Midland Marine Corp. (TIME, Sept. 30), the Bancohio Corp., organized last week and the Banco Kentucky Corp. which will shortly purchase the Brighton Bank & Trust Co. and the Pearl-Market Bank & Trust Co. both of Cincinnati...