Word: years
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These early troubles surmounted, Mr. Mitchell enjoyed many a successful year, during which, under his presidency. Na- tional City Bank became first a billion dollar, then a two billion dollar, institution. Within the past year, through its merger with Farmers' Loan and Trust (TIME, April 8) and the all-but-ratified merger with Corn Exchange Bank (TIME, Sept. 30) the Bank reiterated its position as greatest U. S. bank, became greatest world bank. Now Mr. Mitchell, who used to say that he was too poor to eat at Child's, instead, for reputation's sake, fed at expensive hotels, could...
...only by constant rises had reached the limits of its climb. 3) Most important of all, indications of a slowing tempo in U. S. industry. The motor stocks, for example, had long since fallen from their January highs?a forecast of slackening production in the latter portion of the year. Now steel mills were no longer running at 97% and 98% of capacity. Slowly the Market began to realize that 1929 might be an abnormal year, a high-water year instead of one more level in a still-rising tide. If this fear were well founded, what then...
College of Propaganda. Last week the Pope attended graduation exercises in the 300-year-old College of Propaganda in Rome. The college, alma mater of polyglot gospellers, produced for the Pope's edification graduation speeches in 25 tongues and dialects. Among them: Sanskrit, Hebrew, Chaldean, Japanese, Siamese, Kaffir, Gaelic, Rumanian, Magyar. Said the Pope: he was pleased that God had glorified all these tongues...
Under auspices of five county medical societies in New York City, campaigners are using mass meetings, the press, the radio and school teachers to recommend that each person in the community be physically examined at least once a year. Preferably his personal physician should do the work. If an institution examines him, his personal physician should get the information, should interpret the findings and tell the patient that he is healthy, that he should do so-and-so to prevent disease, or to cure affliction...
Five New Jersey women who one year ago believed that today they would be dead, were still alive last week but uncomfortable at the imminence of death. They are suffering from radium poisoning contracted while painting luminous watch dials for the U. S. Radium Corp. (TIME, June 4, 1928 et seq). The company, after law suits, gave each woman $10,000 and expenses...