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2 unusual facts about 40 Wall Street


40 Wall Street

The twin-engined plane was heading for Newark Airport on a flight originating at Lake Charles Army Air Field in Louisiana.

George Newell Armsby

After playing a role in the construction of 40 Wall Street, for a time the world's tallest building and now The Trump Building, Armsby and Cowdin persuaded Giannini's Bank of America to merge with Blair, which became - in 1931, in the depths of the Great Depression - a major force on Wall Street.



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