Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...investment groups. But bigger than any of these developments was an announcement last week that Kraft-Phenix would be a unit in a new food company sponsored by the National City Bank. Other companies included were Hershey Chocolate Corp. and Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. Combined assets of the three exceed $125,000,000, placing the new company ahead of J. P. Morgan's Standard Brands...
...assay the democracy of first class U. S. transportation. Though nobody had complained of a 40-year practice, the Commission ordered an investigation into the extra fares required for transportation on some carriers' best trains. Section IV of the Transportation Act specifies that through fares must not exceed the aggregate of the intermediate fares between any two points. The I. C. Commissioners suspected that certain roads charged through passengers extra fares on "limited" trains, made no such charge for way passengers on the same trains, thereby throwing out of kilter the delicately balanced passenger tariffs, violating...
...Southern States. Largest bank south of Philadelphia. These were the claims to size made by the new First National Bank of Atlanta, Ga. To form the institution last week the Atlanta and Lowry National Bank announced plans to merge with the Fourth National Bank. Combined resources will exceed $140,000,000. Presidents of the merging banks are John K. Ottley and T. K. Glenn, identified with Coca Cola Co. Worcester. In Worcester, Mass., the Worcester County National Bank, The Second National Bank of Barre and the North Brookfield National Bank merged, maintaining their identity and officials...
...forced the adoption of most dubious expedients by the state. These have included the buying and storing in State warehouses of Brazil's coffee surplus for a number of years, until today the Government of President Washington Luis is saddled with a stupendous hoard of coffee supposed to exceed 13 million bags -as much as an average year's crop...
Fidelity Trust Co., Manhattan, arranged for a merger with the Continental Bank, founded in 1870 and known as "the brokers' bank." Combined resources will exceed...