Word: transfer
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Chief reason for Chase wishing to own American Express was that its business (done through 35 domestic, 65 foreign offices) amounted to international and interstate banking through the sale of money orders, drafts, travelers' checks, letters of credit, telegraphic and cable transfer of funds, collection of foreign bonds, coupons, legacies, the purchase and sale of foreign moneys...
Transcontinental Air Transport announced last week an augmented train plane schedule linking Manhattan with San Francisco. Transcontinental passengers now transfer at Los Angeles (Glendale Terminal Airport) and for $10 extra reach San Francisco about three hours later. Present (reduced) net charges for transcontinental air rail travel (New York to Los Angeles, over the Maddux Line which recently merged with T. A. T.) are: T. A. T., $267.43; Western Air Express, $211.20; Universal Air Lines System...
...Engineering School is operating on essentially the same plan that was established when the work of instruction was reorganized ten years ago. Provision was then made for three groups of students: (1) undergraduates entering the University as Freshmen or by transfer from other colleges or engineering schools: (2) graduates of arts colleges and (3) graduates of engineering colleges...
Such studies as can be taken in the College are scheduled, as far as possible, in the first two years, for the purpose of giving students an opportunity to test their tastes and abilities. Those who have tried engineering and decided they wish to transfer to the College may do so as late as the end of the second year, with full credit for what they have taken in the Engineering School. This has proved to be an advantageous arrangement for the students, and saved much unhappiness and waste of time. Twenty per cent of those who have entered here...
Prohibition. "Enforcement is far from satisfactory. . . . There should be an immediate concentration of responsibility by transfer to the Department of Justice of the functions now lodged in the Prohibition unit in the Treasury. . . . Control of industrial alcohol and legalized beverages should remain in the Treasury. Provision should be made for relief of congestion in the Federal Courts. . . . There should be a codification of the laws relating to Prohibition. ... I would add to these recommendations the desirability of reorganizing the various services engaged in the prevention of smuggling into one Border Patrol under the Coast Guard...