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...Boston, a bank vice president at 29. At the turn of the century he marched down to Manhattan as an officer in a small bank that he later absorbed. When he was picked for president in 1911 Chase National Bank boasted total assets of $106.000,000. At the peak of its prosperity two years ago the total was $2,697,000,000 -a record...
...farewell salute, after 40 years' service. Death had cut the ranks of Confederate veterans to 4,500. Depression had forced the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which kept the magazine alive in recent years, to withdraw its support. Circulation of the final issue was 6,000. Its peak had been...
...seats empty, according to figures published last week by the Department of Commerce. The Department's analysis was begun October 1931, showed an average of 39% seat-occupancy for that month. The average dipped to 28% for the bad-weather month of December, climbed steadily to a 53% peak last August, dropped to 43% in October. Average for 13 months...
...Maintenance Department is one of the busiest in the University. Often they have crews of workmen of different types at work about the buildings, which reach, as a whole, at their peak, to over 300. This includes 90 to 110 men on the grounds crew, 70 to 100 painters, and 50 to 100 carpenters, as well as many other specialists, such as window washers and chimney cleaners...
...practically unknown. In Japan the power companies often become involved in bitter price wars in selling to local distributing concerns or to big industrial users. Last winter the Big Five signed a peace pact, agreeing to respect one another's customers, to pool power at times of peak load or droughts, to refrain from building new plants without permission of the other units...