Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There remained also the possibility that the Reserve banks would either raise their rediscount rates or attempt to persuade member banks to call in New York call money...
...Angeles last week gathered Henry Morgenthau, onetime (1913-16) U S Ambassador to Turkey; Adolph S. Ochs, publisher of the New York Times and President John N. Willys, of Willys Overland Co., Toledo, Ohio. At Maywood, near Los Angeles, with the help of the Messrs. Morgenthau and Ochs, President Willys dedicated his company's new $1,500,000 assembly plant. On the day before the ceremonies, the plant had turned out 60 small, agile Whippets. It will soon go into Willys-Knight production, plant was designed for quick deliveries west of the Rockies and for the Asiatic trade Said...
Members of the New York Stock Exchange last week approved, 782 to 133, their Board of Governors' plan to increase the Exchange membership from 1,100 to 1,375 (TIME, Feb. 4). Since the increase adds 25% to the membership, each present member has a one-fourth interest in a new seat, or, in other words, each present member now owns five-fourths of a membership. The prospective purchaser of an Exchange seat may therefore acquire membership in one of the following three ways...
Only three dozen planes appeared at the New York Aviation Show last week. Few of the better known planes were there. The American Legion, not the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, had organized the show. But it was the first air exposition that New York has had for almost eight years and 20,000 persons daily endured the active discourtesies of Grand Central Palace Exposition factotums to see the planes. Many a sight-seer bought a plane on the spot. Many another was there just to learn to recognize the different makes...
...some spectators it seemed wise to let Leonardo da Vinci lie quietly in his undiscovered grave in Amboise by the sunny river Loire; to sell pictures for whatever they may bring regardless of recondite aspersions. The New York World editorialized: "We believe it would be a good idea if the court found out whether the talesmen know a Corot from a Wallace Nutting, and whether the Louvre is an art museum, a hotel or a disease. . . . There is grave danger that the verdict will be i cent to the plaintiff, 'with costs on the said Devinchey...