Word: bank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate also undid another of the House's heat-of-battle deeds-the vote last May to kill off the Soil Bank's acreage reserve at the end of 1957. A Senate-House conference settled last week on an agriculture appropriations bill that included $500 million to carry the acreage reserve through...
...worked out a new kind of welfare-state benefit: dowries for all. Urged on by the King and Queen, 132 citizens' committees all over Greece have conducted drives to raise money for a national dowry fund. Each time 1,000 drachmas ($33.33) is added to the collection, a bank book is issued in the name of some future bride, selected at the age of one to three years by the committee from the poorest families in the village. With compound interest, by the time a girl of 26 has found her man, the value of each book will have...
...world's biggest scientific instrument, and probably its biggest precision mechanism, is the giant radiotelescope at Jodrell Bank, just south of Manchester, England. Demonstrated to the press last week, it is almost finished and will go into action this summer, reaching into the depths of the universe for faint whispers of radio information...
...liverish patients are going through a similar waterlogged routine. Said the director of a Vichy spa: "The Americans aren't coming, or the British either, since the Americans don't get bad livers from their colonies and the British don't get money from the Bank of England. But if you think Vichy is out of fashion, you couldn't be more wrong. We've never had such figures in our history...
...business looked back this week on a first half year that confounded the pessimists and delighted the optimists by its healthy showing. How do businessmen feel about the six months ahead? The First National Bank of Chicago asked twelve key executives about their prospects. Consensus: 1957's second half will equal or surpass the first in almost every sector of the economy. Area witnesses...