Word: bank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...post secret Secret Service men so that they 1) could guard Mamie while she was in or near the swimming pool, but 2) could not see, or be seen, by poolside women. It took considerable brow-furrowing to find a spot-behind an oleander hedge on a bank sloping down from the pool-where the guards would be within earshot but not eyeshot...
...been what may be called a moneymaker. There have been many times in my life when I have been in need of financial assistance." And whenever he needed such assistance, why there was good old Thurman Whiteside, ready with a check from one of his 19 (at least) bank accounts...
...piece beside U.S. Highway 23, the muddy water was swirling, rapids-fast and more than 20 ft. deep, through channels where it normally meanders no more than chest-high on a tall man. There, last week, a loaded school bus caromed off the highway, down a soft, bank, and into the icy water. With it to death rode 26 Floyd County children and their driver, in the worst school-bus accident in U.S. history...
...exporting rubber to Singapore. Tall, efficient Colonel Simbolon in North Sumatra and scholarly Colonel Barlian in South Sumatra also went into the business of army-managed barter and invested the profits in schools, roads, barracks. The operation was scrupulously honest. When Djakarta challenged Simbolon's operations, he produced bank records to show that he had not diverted a single rupiah...
...funds still unspent, Ydigoras said that the only additional aid he might need would be a relatively modest sum for fighting malaria and hookworm disease. He told State Department Inter-American Affairs Chief Roy Rubottom that he planned to spend money on agriculture, rural resettlement and roadbuilding. With World Bank President Eugene...