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In 1933, Adolfo Rossi of BCI traveled to New York to implement a reorganization of BCI's operations in North America. In late 1934 the bank received US$15,000 in gold from South American mines. The producers apparently found it profitable to ship the gold to New York to sell it to the US Government. [10] In 1937 BCI liquidated the Boston ...
BCIU was formed November 10, 1955, at the White House Industrial Cooperation Council Conference, as an initiative directed by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.It was established with the purpose of improving foreign understanding of business practices within the United States, [1] thereby lifting a national image that had suffered greatly through the course of the Cold War.
The Bank of Italy Building, also known as the Clay-Montgomery Building, is a building in San Francisco, California. [2] This eight-story building became the headquarters of A. P. Giannini's Bank of Italy (precursor to the Bank of America) in 1908 after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire destroyed the original bank building on Montgomery Avenue (now Columbus Avenue) in the nearby ...
44 Montgomery is a 43-story, 172 m (564 ft) office skyscraper in the heart of San Francisco's Financial District. [5] Groundbreaking was in the spring of 1964. [6] When completed in 1967, it was the tallest building west of Dallas, surpassed by 555 California Street (built as the world headquarters of Bank of America) in 1969.
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The Pier 43 Ferry Arch is an historic ferry arch at Pier 43 in San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf, in the U.S. state of California. [1] Its headhouse, a decorated hoisting tower for loading and unloading rail cars on and off ferries, was built in 1914 to serve the Belt Railroad. The wood pier was replaced in 1996.
Great Highway and Sloat (San Francisco Zoo) 3,800 24 Divisadero † Jackson and Webster: Third Street and Palou: 12,000 25 Treasure Island: Salesforce Transit Center: Avenue H and 13th Street (Treasure Island) 2,800 27 Bryant: M: Pacific and Van Ness: Cesar Chavez and Bartlett: 6,200 28 19th Avenue: Powell and Beach (Fisherman's Wharf) Daly ...
Torpedo Wharf is a wharf in the Presidio of San Francisco, in the U.S. state of California. The site has been a wharf since 1854, and earned its current name when the United States Army built a naval mine depot c. 1907–1909. The current wharf was established in 1941, and now serves as a popular tourist destination. [1] [2]