Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...founded at the beginning of the present year-a year notable not for the appearance of new banks but for the disappearance (via merger) of long-established banking institutions. Since April 12, 1926, when Chase National absorbed Mechanics & Metals National, there have been 50 bank mergers in New York. In 33 of these mergers the smaller bank has completely lost its identity. Furthermore, new mergers are constantly expected, with the banking trend unquestionably toward the formation of fewer and bigger banks. Founding of Commercial National as an independent and comparatively small bank was a marked exception to the prevailing tendency...
Chicago Yellow Cab Co., Inc. (operates 2,800 Yellow Cabs in Chicago; also Drive-it-yourself companies in New York, Chicago, Delaware) Net profit...
...York City exercised ingenuity last week in diphtheria prevention work. At the suggestion of its Diphtheria Prevention Commission (Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament, president), Health Commissioner Shirley W. Wynne borrowed a half-dozen trucks from the street cleaning department, cleaned them, placarded them with warnings against diphtheria, and advice to use toxin-antitoxins. Aboard each car he loaded a doctor, two nurses and a refrigerator full of toxin-antitoxin. Then these "healthmobiles" rolled forth among the city's millions like itinerant waffle carts. Spectacular, convenient, they "sold" the idea of preparing in July for winter's diphtheria, administered...
Later Dr. Theobald Smith, of the Rockefeller Institute, found that if a little diphtheria toxin were added to antitoxin the mixture would immunize animals against the disease. At once Dr. William Hallock Park, director of New York City's health department laboratories, and his associate, the late Dr. Abraham Zingher, began to immunize children with the toxin-antitoxin mixture. That mixture is what the "healthmobiles" were administering last week. Three to six months are necessary before immunity is established...
...exclaimed: "Think of it! In New York they call me a crazy Russian. . . . But I had complete control of myself. ... I seemed to be observing a drama rather than acting...