Word: twin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the week was out 5,000 British troops commanded by Brigadier General William George Shedden Dobbie were in Palestine, mightfully striving to restore order and protect not only the large cities but such strategic towns as El Abadiyeh and Jur-el-Mujami (see map), twin sites of the chief generating stations of the Palestine Power Trust, founded and managed by famed, dynamic Zionist Pincus Rutenberg (TIME, Mar. 4). Neither bristling, florid, militant General Dobbie nor the cold, curt High Commissioner made the smallest vestige of an answer to the week's most vital question: Why were not adequate...
...chain-banking movement in the Twin Cities was started by Northwestern National Bank of Minneapolis which formed the $75,000,000 Northwest Bank Corp. and began picking up banks in the vicinity. Among its attempted acquisitions was First National Bank of Minneapolis. First National Bank of St. Paul, not intending to be left in the cold, started its own chain last spring, united 17 banks under one holding company. Last week's union swallowed up the First National of St. Paul's first effort, added 20 more banks, united all in a holding company headed jointly by the First Nationals...
...large cities. In the typical example of the latter, a large bank buys up one or more small banks, absorbs them in its corporate structure. The offices of the absorbed banks become branches of one central bank. The operation of such a merged unit is called branch banking. The Twin City organism will practice not branch but chain banking. These two types of banking are not only quite distinct, they are considered by some to be opposed, and there is a hot debate pro and con as to the merits of each system...
...steel whale plunged down the ways at Newport News. Va., and was christened Pennsylvania. Last week fitters were busy installing finishings, running gear and, of special significance in a modern freight carrier, refrigerating and air-cooling machinery. Owned by the Panama Pacific line, turbo-electric driven, the Pennsylvania has twin sisters, Virginia and California. The Virginia began last winter to carry 33,000-ton loads of freight between Atlantic and Pacific ports. The California made her maiden voyage the winter before. The Pennsylvania will be ready for service in October or November...
...Twin Beds (First National). Comedian Jack Mulhall, who used to act only with Dorothy Mackaill, herein plays opposite Patsy Ruth Miller, supported by a good cast. The story is one of those anecdotes generally used as a framework for the less profitable shows of minor burlesque circuits. Miss Miller's frustrated ambition to sleep in a bed beside her husband's on her wedding night might have been funny in spite of everything but for the dialog-line after awkward line recited in singsong and divided from the next by little fences of silence. Twin Beds is partially...