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... America - which , by the 1930s , was the world's largest commercial bank . He was a major pioneer of branch banking ... America of California . Af- ter creating a holding company , Transamerica Corporation ( 1928 ) , for his banking ...
... America - which , by the 1930s , was the world's largest commercial bank . He was a major pioneer of branch banking ... America of California . Af- ter creating a holding company , Transamerica Corporation ( 1928 ) , for his banking ...
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... America and Europe . Each of the successive glaciations represented in these strata has been identified and named , though the same glacial episode usually bears a differ- ent name in North America than in Europe . Indeed , Alpine ...
... America and Europe . Each of the successive glaciations represented in these strata has been identified and named , though the same glacial episode usually bears a differ- ent name in North America than in Europe . Indeed , Alpine ...
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... America , has a black head and bill , a gray mantle , and pinkish to reddish legs . It nests in trees and hawks over ponds for insects . In the winter , at sea , it may plunge for fish . The California gull ( L. californicus ) , of ...
... America , has a black head and bill , a gray mantle , and pinkish to reddish legs . It nests in trees and hawks over ponds for insects . In the winter , at sea , it may plunge for fish . The California gull ( L. californicus ) , of ...
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