Word: unite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sound Navy Yard in Bremerton, Washington, to assume command of the U. S. S. Colorado, which is undergoing a general overhauling. Further orders from the Bureau of Navigation reveal that Captain Adolphus Watson, U.S.N., will relieve Captain Wygant of his duties with the Harvard Naval R. O. T. C. Unit...
Until Captain Watson's arrival about the middle of this month, Commander R. C. Williams, U. S. N., the executive officer of the Unit, will be in charge of the course. Captain Watson comes here from the Pacific Coast where he was Chief-of-Staff of one of the divisions of the Battle Fleet. He has just been selected for promotion to Rear-Admiral, but will remain on duty here before attaining his admiralcy. During the war he was on active service overseas under Admiral W. S. Sims...
...banks, many branches. Last week he gloomily contemplated the ravages of Depression upon the banking system, and again pleaded with slow-to-change bankers and suspicious Congressmen for the development of branch-banking. Said he: "In brief, the purpose of the legislation recommended is to supplement our system of unit banking by permitting the stronger and better managed city banks to carry on banking operations in the surrounding rural communities by means of branch offices. . . . Our present banking problem is one that concerns primarily and fundamentally the rural communities and which cannot be automatically solved by the return of general...
Last week the third and greatest unit went into operation when Safe Harbor Water Power Corp. started its first generator, began to deliver power to Baltimore. Safe Harbor, Pa. got its name many years ago when the mouth of Conestoga Creek offered shelter to Susquehanna flat boats. In 1929, when work began on Safe Harbor dam, it was a quiet village. Little work had been done when the stock-market crashed in November but construction went on at a faster pace. The company's bankers, Aldred & Co. of New York, supplied money to Arundel Corp., construction engineers, whenever they...
...Royal Mint strike very shortly a new basic coin containing 113 grains of fine gold. Great Britain's pound, while on the gold standard, was also equivalent to 113 grains of fine gold, and South Africa's pound still is. Thus the Union's new unit will have exactly the same value as her present unit; but it will have a gorgeous, glowing 100% South African name, "the Rand...