Word: standpoints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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's Midland Bank Limited is larger ?almost a two-and-a-half-billion dollar bank. Other British banks with larger deposits are Lloyd's and Barclay...
Thus the Iron Man craftily raised the slumbering issue of whether U. S. holders of German bonds or the allied powers would have first claim upon the resources of the Reich. From the standpoint of the U. S. and Germany-and from their standpoint alone-the payments of both bond and reparations indebtedness are of approximately equal importance. The allied governments could watch Germany default on her U. S. bonds with relative unconcern; but any representative of U. S. interests must take care that the whole burden imposed on Germany is not too heavy for her to bear-even...
...think the House Plan very fine," he said enthusiastically. "Of course I haven't heard all the arguments against the plan but from the standpoint of an older man, who has had some experience with college boys, I think the plan a good one in every respect...
...whose father's court he had been a page. As the Great Powers mobilized (for their various and several reasons), and as the World War burst upon Europe, the wisdom of M. Pashitch's course was seriously in doubt. He lived to see it supremely vindicated, from the Serbian standpoint; for the peace treaties gave to Serbia additional territories of 59,400 square miles, including huge slices of Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria, and the whole of the little realm of Montenegro...
...share earnings for 1928. The actual report showed earnings of $14.26 per share (figured without the new issue)-a gratifying increase but not proportional to the stock market price. Inasmuch as 15 times $14.26 is $213.90, Montgomery Ward earnings, justified no higher 1928 quotation than 214; or, from another standpoint, at 439⅞, Montgomery Ward was selling not at 15 times earnings but at 31 times earnings. Thus can a strong bull favorite make even "15X" look very conservative indeed...