Notes, Dec. 20, 1926

Seat. Two New York Stock Exchange members sold their seats last week for record prices: Bennett Schneider sold to Kenneth Walsh of San Francisco for $170,000; C. V. Hoffman to Bernard L. Mensch of Manhattan for $175,000. The previous record price was $160,000 (TIME, Dec. 6).

Life Insurance. Presidents of U.S. life insurance companies met at Manhattan last week and reported that every other person in this country now carries life insurance, that these 58,000,000 people own 108,000,000 policies, that if every policy were paid their total...

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