Business: High Interest

But the W. T. C. 's not for sale

To would-be climbers, tightrope walkers, King Kong and New York tourists, it is the World Trade Center, at 1,350 ft. the second tallest building in the world, behind only Chicago's Sears Tower (1,454 ft.). To Germans, the 110-story double monolith looming over Lower Manhattan is a tongue twister: Das Welthandelzen-trum. The translation is of more than casual interest to the Deutsche Bank of Frankfurt, which in terms of assets (about $50 billion) ranks fourth in the world, after San Francisco's Bank of America, New York's Citibank and France's Caisse Nationale de Crēdit Agricole....

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