Word: bank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...price-spiraling on Dwight Eisenhower & Co. In the same nonpartisan spirit, a congressional subcommittee chaired by Arkansas' Congressman Wilbur D. Mills unanimously concluded last week that the Administration had done right in backing up the Federal Reserve Board's inflation-fighting tight-money policy of bridling bank credit. Reported the committee, after interviewing three dozen experts: tight money pinches, but it restrains inflation-and inflation pinches harder and more unjustly...
...Newport, R.I., by Marie Antoinette not long before she was beheaded in 1793. It hung until 1833 in Vernon's collection at Newport where it was listed as "A Nun, a finished picture by Leonardo da Vinci." In recent years the Vernon family has kept it in a bank vault in Manhattan...
...good for parents to be left alone too much!") The seekers are Bobby's widowed father (ProducerDirector Gene Kelly), a Paris-based U.S. businessman who sneers at the French as inefficient foreigners, and Brigitte's divorced mamma (Barbara Laage), a svelte French pastry who has broken a bank in Monte Carlo and now plans to marry...
...brilliant mixed-blood scientist who secretly aspires to be "a Napoleon of the black masses." As these and other characters converge on Luala, Colquhoun stumbles on a series of weird goings-on-sacrificial rams and totemistic moles and a mysterious concourse of natives performing rites by a river bank. At Luala, near the sacred rock Bamili (where sacrifices had probably been held since the time of Queen Nefertiti), Colquhoun discovers that those who come under the shadow of this red rock are doomed to a sad fate...
...good voice for midnight serenades or amateur theatricals, could dash off a funny verse or a caricature with ease. He married pretty, well-to-do Athol Estes, promptly moved in with her stepfather, and through the efforts of a friend got a job at Austin's First National Bank. All went swimmingly until 1894, when Will was 32 and the father of a five-year-old daughter. Then a sharp-eyed bank examiner dropped in at the First National and found a shortage of $5,557.02 in Will's accounts. Porter fled to Central America, came back when...