Word: bank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this issue, Ike's thoughtful citizens can gain some understanding of the effects of the latest Federal Reserve change in required bank reserves, and discover some early harbingers of spring in our economic climate, see BUSINESS, On the Rise...
...early-morning darkness at Cape Canaveral, the morning star and the thin edge of a waning moon graced the eastern sky. Their light faded, and at 6:45 the sun burst bright and yellow above a cloud bank to bathe the slender dark-green-and-white Vanguard rocket standing on Launch Pad 18A. In Vanguard's nose was a 3¼-lb. antenna-horned space satellite that symbolized at once the hope and despair of all the men at the Cape. Temperamental Vanguard, twice a spectacular failure, was once again ready for the shoot: the countdown was onT minus...
...president, the " U.S. Chamber of Commerce last week elected St. Louis Banker William A. McDonnell, 63, chairman of the city's First National Bank and director of McDonnell Aircraft Corp., of which his brother James S. McDonnell Jr. is president. An Arkansas cotton merchant's son, who peddled papers as a child "because I wanted to stand on my own two feet"-and now keeps them both conservatively on the ground-Banker McDonnell graduated (summa cum laude) from Vanderbilt University in 1917, worked up through Little Rock banks before moving to St. Louis in 1944, where he became...
...SOIL-BANK HANDOUTS will be boosted from $500 million to $750 million this year because so many farmers rushed to cash in on acreage reserve program, scheduled to expire in 1959. Boost will cut market for farm labor and supplies, pinch many rural merchants. Example: in Georgia each dollar paid by soil bank will take an estimated $3 to $5 out of circulation in farm towns...
...Amateur. In Norfolk, Mass., two lifers on the state prison debating team continued a three-year undefeated record-against such opponents as Oxford, Cambridge, M.I.T., Harvard-when they took the affirmative on the question "Bank Robbing Is Too Easy," downed the debating team of McGill University...