BANKING: The Women

"Women from the Stone Age to the Mink Age are acutely conscious of money. Most of their waking hours are spent in thinking about it, in planning how they can use it so that it will purchase the most and still leave them a little something for the savings bank ... or the sugar jar on the pantry shelf."

Thus spoke Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark, 49, the first woman Treasurer of the U.S. to an audience of 105 women in San Francisco's ornate Fairmont Hotel last week.

But no one in Mrs. Clark's audience would dream of putting money in...

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