Happy Birthday MetLife

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Across
  1. 3. The company's Savings and Investment Plan (SIP) for associates was established
  2. 4. "National AIDS Awareness Test" is sponsored by Metropolitan Life
  3. 5. "Get Met. It Pays." became the company slogan and the Peanuts characters were introduced
  4. 6. Metropolitan Life marked its 100th anniversary
  5. 8. Metropolitan helped establish poison control centers
  6. 9. Stuyvesant Town and Riverton housing complexes are opened in New York City
  7. 11. Metropolitan's One Madison Avenue building is used by the American Red Cross as an administrative relief center for survivors of the Titanic disaster
  8. 13. First company to establish wholly owned housing projects on a grand scale
  9. 15. "A Friend in Need, Is a Friend Indeed," is published; death claims paid by telegraph
  10. 17. Metropolitan Life aided farmers during the Great Depression by rehabilitating more than 7,000 farms
  11. 18. First female clerk hired and first typewriter used
  12. 19. first policy issued by Metropolitan Life
  13. 20. First U.S. company to open service center in Europe for U.S. armed forces
  14. 21. Company began research on tuberculosis, the nation's No. 1 killer
  15. 23. Home Office is moved to One Madison Avenue
  16. 24. MetLife Tower completed; visiting nurse service started
  17. 25. Company sends special crew to assist after San Francisco earthquake
Down
  1. 1. Company changed its corporate signature from Metropolitan Life to MetLife
  2. 2. Company began selling a new plan that enabled small companies to obtain the benefits of group coverage in life and health insurance
  3. 4. Assets break the $100 billion mark
  4. 5. Pan Am building (200 Park Avenue) purchased
  5. 6. 1,000 local offices are linked to the home office's computer complex
  6. 7. First large-scale electronic data processing system in the life insurnace industry
  7. 9. First group surgical policy is issued
  8. 10. Metropolitan made the largest contribution to U.S. war effort of any private investor - nearly $4 billion is invested in U.S. and Canadian government bonds
  9. 11. Home Office employees top one-thousand mark
  10. 12. $2 billion in assets is reached
  11. 14. "Metropolitan Cook Book" published
  12. 16. The September 11th Attacks on America: A Response by MetLife and MetLife Foundation
  13. 17. company made a $27.5 million investment loan to finance the contruction of the Empire State Building
  14. 18. Metropolitan purchased its first home office building
  15. 19. Company moved to 319 Broadway, New York City
  16. 21. Company invested $44.9 million to finance the construction of Rockefeller Center in New York City
  17. 22. Company's first group accident & health policy is issued to it's employees
  18. 23. Pacific Coast Head Office is opened in San Francisco