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| Title | Practical Problems in Banking and Currency: Being a Number of Selected Addresses Delivered in Recent Years by Prominent Bankers, Financiers and Economists |
| Editor | Walter Henry Hull |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1907 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Sep 27, 2007 |
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