Word: salts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BANKING BATTLE is shaping up between Transamerica Corp., which once controlled the giant Bank of America, and onetime Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner Eccles' First Security Corp. of Salt Lake City (resources: $400 million). To give Eccles some competition, Transamerica has spent an estimated $2,000,000 for three banks and four branches (total assets: $44 million) in Idaho, is expected to move into Eccles' own stronghold of Utah...
...Switch to Salt. Bell Labs' war on the grey squirrel dates back to the turn of the century, when the company first became conscious of the squirrels' appetite for the lead sheath in which telephone wires are encased. After the squirrels gnaw through the sheath, linemen found, moisture gets at the paper insulation around the wires, causing a short circuit and disrupting communications. Engineers went to work to find out what it is in the lead that appeals to squirrels. According to one theory, the squirrels are suffering from a nutritional disorder caused by a lack of calcium...
...other nine are in Logan, Utah; Cardston, Alta., Canada; St. George, Utah; Manti, Utah; Mesa, Ariz.; Honolulu; Salt Lake City; Idaho Falls, Idaho; Bern, Switzerland. † Who told Founder Joseph Smith in Manchester, N.Y. Sept. 21, 1823 about the golden tablets that held the fundamental tenets of Mormonism...
Standing on the bridge of heaven, the two deities, Izanagi and Izanami, looked down upon the great ocean. Izanagi dipped his jeweled spear in the water, and as he lifted it, salt water dropped from the point and solidified, to form the first of the islands of Japan. Izanagi and Izanami descended to the new land, married, and began to people heaven and earth. By washing his left eye, Izanagi produced the Sun Goddess, Amaterasu O-mikami. She took over the rule of heaven and passed earth over to her grandson and his descendants, the Emperors of Japan...
...year's end, with U.S. personal debts at $800 for every man, woman and child in the nation, many businessmen shook their heads over credit's spectacular rise. Warned Salt Lake City Banker Walter E. Cosgriff: "Almost everyone is aware that if you increase the amount of steam required to pull a locomotive, you'd better be careful, or you'll blow the thing up." No one was more aware of this than the U.S. Government's monetary and fiscal experts. From the start, the Federal Reserve Board under Chairman William Mc-Chesney Martin kept...