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Wrapped in a shred of muslin and tucked in a soiled sash, the Pink Pearl is taken to Linga, across the Gulf. There appraisers sit with ancient scales, chaffer to the utmost kran,* seal their purchase with a solemn glass of tea. From Linga, the Pink Pearl journeys to Bombay or Bagdad, where foreign experts laud its lustre, symmetry, and flawlessness; drive less ceremonious bargains; swaddle the Pink Pearl in fluffy cotton; scurry back, elated, to the great jewellers of Fifth Ave., Bond St., Rue de la Paix...
...train is to be outfitted in a manner calculated to make for the utmost enjoyment of those travelling this way. Sleeping, parlor and club cars have been procured...
Banker Hecht views banking concentration, formation of chain banks, with the utmost alarm. Articulate, he found phrases: "Financial feudalism . . . economis vassalage . . . financial octopus . . . Branch banking is a monster of such frightful mien." He quoted figures: "During the past 25 years, the number of branch banks has practically doubled each five years."* He classified, adroitly: "We still have the nation's financial business carried on by literally 57 varieties of banking institutions (48 different kinds of state banks, national banks, federal joint stock land banks, federal land banks, federal reserve banks, federal intermediate credit banks, postal savings system, mutual savings banks...
...ever undertaken by any government. It involves three times the expenditure laid out upon the Panama Canal. It is justified by the growth, need and wealth of our country. The organization and administration of this construction is a responsibility of the first order. For it we must secure the utmost economy, honesty and skill. These works which will provide jobs for an army of men should so far as practicable be adjusted to take up the slack of unemployment elsewhere...
...Moral and Spiritual." In between various economic matters, these words were reiterated, but no special point made except that the orator regarded them as of utmost importance...