Word: soon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soon Harry was talking of Hollywood and when he heard that Joan Crawford was a favorite at Harvard he said, "Joan is a wonderful girl, and she's never caused me any trouble. In fact, the only mischief she ever does is when I'm acting. Then she stands arounds and laughs so hard that the whole work is broken up and we have to take the scene over...
...brings, and in this respect the talkies have surely made good. The talkies are now just in their infancy. If one compares the automobile of 20 years ago to the present model and then judges the talkies by the same rate of development one can imagine what they will soon amount...
Pride of the Bowman-Biltmore hotel system is Manhattan's Biltmore. Pride of the United Hotels Chain is Manhattan's Roosevelt. Soon Biltmore and Roosevelt, already next-door neighbors, may be financial as well as topographical companions. For last week, widely, convincingly rumored, was a Bowman-Biltmore-United Hotel merger that would create a $50,000,000 hotel chain with more than 100 units, with over 20,000 rooms...
...wines and cigars in Gustav Bauman's oldtime Holland House. When Bauman put up the Biltmore in 1912, Bowman was its manager. When, ten months later, Bauman died, Bowman took over the hotel. After nursing the Biltmore through a creditor-threatened infancy, Bowman began his expansion and soon additional Biltmores joined the family...
Last week came announcement of the long-rumored merger of Guaranty Trust and National Bank of Commerce (TIME, Feb. 11). Probably a skyscraper will soon be erected on the joint site. With Guaranty Trust already fourth largest and National Bank of Commerce ninth largest among U. S. banks, the merger-bank will pass National City and Chase National, will stand as largest U. S. bank, as first U. S. bank with assets approximating two billions. From the standpoint of capital and surplus the merger-bank will be also world's largest. From the standpoint of deposits and total assets, London...