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...proud of his branch system, as each branch is equipped as a complete unit with all services. Each of the four banks involved in the merger has many branches, and if these are retained Banker Jonas will head a 148-branch system, largest in the New York area. Even if conflicting branches are eliminated, the total number will probably be in excess of Bank of Manhattan...
...consumers ready to accept such substitutes as gas, oil. Then too, imported coal has been mounting. The U. S. S. R. and Wales have been leading foreign sellers of coal to the U. S., but last fortnight Burns Bros., most potent distributor of coal in the New York area, announced it would start importing some anthracite from Germany. If Andrew J. Maloney, flanked on one side by Stone & Webster engineering skill, on the other by Morgan-Drexel financial shrewdness and potency, can lead PRC to stability of earnings, perhaps eventually to dividends, he will have won one of the hardest...
...once the flourishing city of Nuzi, the center of a community of people both commercially and artistically minded. Here for the past three years excavations have been going on under the respective directorship of Edward Cheira, Robert H. Pfleffer, and R. F. S. Starr, during which time sufficient area has been laid bare to give an extremely accurate picture of the lives and customs of the people who lived there prior to the destruction and desertion of the city shortly after 1500 B.C. Great quantities of inscribed cuneiform tablets show the completeness and precision with which business records were kept...
...area cleared there are three separate types of building: the private house, the great palace, and the temple. It is in the latter two and particularly from the temple that most material of artistic value has come to light. Here the Nuzians gave abundant and convincing proof of their skill as artisans and of their understanding and feeling as real artists...
...Brazilian government promised in return for Mr. Stimson's benediction. The British have had long experience in such transactions, and take it for granted that the State Department is not entirely altruistic this time." Prisoner Proof. In the actual theatre of Brazil's Civil War-an area as large as the U. S. states east of the Mississippi River-towns and cities were frequently "captured" by both Federals and Rebels simultaneously last week-if their official announcements were to be believed. ' The main fighting line, insofar as it existed, was the southern frontier of the great coffee...