Word: sizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Library officials here are inclined to scoff at figures published in the World Almanac to the effect that Russia has two which far surpass the size of the world's other giant book-stacks, numbering around seven or eight million each...
This figure makes it the third largest library in the country, exceeded in size only by the Library of Congress in Washington and the New York Public Library with whom it runs a close race for second place in the magnitude contest. In Europe two national libraries are larger, the British Museum in London and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris...
...Considered raising the limit on insured bank deposits. To the 13,719 U. S. banks now insured (up to $5,000 per account) by Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Chairman Leo Crowley sent a letter asking for statistics on the number of their accounts over $5,000 in size. Recalling that Chairman Henry Steagall of the House Banking Committee had advocated increased coverage, Chairman Crowley said FDIC was willing to raise the ante if the additional risk were "very small." Previous estimates showed that about 95% of U. S. deposits were covered by the present limit. But a new estimate...
...represent 90% of U. S. business, that they control over 18,000,000 votes, that the association is represented in 60% of the country's Congressional districts. No one would say how big the association is, except to place it kittenishly between 1,000 and 100,000. Probable size: 5,000 to 10,000. "If the membership is secret," said Mr. Emery, "no one knows how big a club you're swinging." He was not at all discouraged, he added, at the convention's small attendance. "After all," he said, "only 30 small businessmen attended the Boston...
...School, largest of the graduate units, expects 1,250 men this year, a decrease of 39 from last year's figure of 1,389. The first-year men registered Saturday and the upperclassmen begin today and tomorrow. Third in size of its student body is the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences with 800 men expected during the next few days. There were 755 during a similar period last year...