{"value"=>"<p>Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, financial statements, telegrams, radiograms, cables, printed matter, newspaper clippings; drawings and maps.</p> <p>The records comprising Series 1, PEC General and Administrative Files, represent various of the corporation's interests and activities over the years, and frequently extend the documentation available within subsequent series devoted to the records of PEC subsidiaries. In addition, the colonization of Jewish Palestine is reflected more generally within this series, as in a miscellany of government and private reports (\"Reports on Palestine\") dating from 1922 to 1930; and in the records of early Jewish industry in the country (\"Palestinian Industries\" [sic]).</p> <p>With respect to subsidiary activity, files for Bayside Land Corporation, Ltd., contain correspondence to and from PEC for the years 1936-1938; for Central Bank of Cooperative Institutions in Palestine, Ltd., incoming and outgoing correspondence for 1938; and for Palestine Mortgage and Credit Bank, Ltd., outgoing only for 1936 to 1938. The Annual Report files contained within Series 1 are another source of information about PEC's activity through its various subsidiaries, as these contain drafts of the subsidiaries' own reports (1935-1939) for inclusion in those of PEC. While there are no drafts or printed copies of the coloration's annual reports within the collection, balance sheets for 1930-1940 may be found within the \"Resources and Commitments\" files.</p> <p>Other files within Series 1 which significantly extend documentation available within other series include those for Agricultural Long Term Loans (1926-1933) and Intermediate Credits (1929-1939), respectively, representing two of PEC's chief activities through the Central Bank. Similarly, the groups of files contained under \"Haifa Bay\", \"Housing\", and \"Jewish National Fund Leasehold\" each constitute an essential complement to the records of Series 5 (Haifa Bay Development Company) and Series 6 (Bayside Land Corporation, Ltd.), which document PEC's appropriation and development of land in the Haifa Bay region.</p> <p>Also represented within this series, in the form of minutes and correspondence for the years 1931-1934, is the work of the American Economic Committee for Palestine. The committee provided an information, rather than a financial, service for prospective settlers, who needed recent and reliable economic data on Palestine. The committee members' interest in the country's developing economy also found expression in service on the boards of directors of many of the country's financial institutions and enterprises, including that of PEC.</p> <p>Of particular note among individual correspondents in this series is PEC president Julius Simon, from whom letters and reports dating from 1935 to 1938 are present.</p>"}