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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When, last month, Aviators James Kelly and R. L. Robbins remained aloft over Fort Worth, Tex., for 172 hrs. 32 mins. 1 sec., great was public interest. No motored vehicle, land, sea or air, had ever before run so long without stopping. Last week, however, two Roosevelt stock sedans drove ground and round the Indianapolis motor speedway without stopping, reached, then far passed the airplane record. One stopped after 231 hrs. and 41 min. The other passed the 300 hour mark, kept going. Drivers (who worked in shifts) included Aviators Kelly and Robbins, who thus helped to break on land...
...two other aviator-automobilists, Round-the-World-Flyers Leigh Wade amd Linton Wells, made a non-stop Packard trip from Los Angeles to New York...
Potent was the bank of America-Chatham-Phenix consolidation. It created Fourth Largest Manhattan Bank (after National City, Guaranty Trust, Chase-National Park). Combined capital of the two banks is $38,500,000; combined surplus and undivided profits are $53,082,662 ; combined total resources...
History of the two companies goes back to 1812, when both Bank of America and Phenix National were founded. During its entire 117 years of business life, Bank of America has not budged from its Wall-and-William-Streets site, though its present building was erected in 1926. Amadeo Peter Giannini acquired control (from Ralph Jonas and Associates in Financial & Industrial Securities Corp.) in 1928, added to it two smaller Giannini banks and the N. A. (National Association) portion of its name. The Phenix Bank merged with Chatham National (founded 1850) in 1911, added other banks...
...merged Bank of America and Chatham-Phenix institution will be presided over by President Louis G. Kaufman of Chatham-Phenix. Amadeo Peter Giannini will probably become Board Chairman. Elisha Walker will head the investment affiliate. It is expected that two Brooklyn banks-Traders' National and Nassau National will soon join the Bank of America family. Because news of the merger leaked out prematurely, and because merged banks are hard to christen, no name for the new institution had been chosen last week...