Word: bank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the terms of the "Higher Education Loan Plan" ("HELP" loans), student borrowers will sign notes due and payable six months after graduation, but they may receive from the bank an agreement to extend the note as much as three years beyond this date...
Born: Jan. 2, 1906, in Normandy, son of an impoverished weaver and a concierge in a savings bank (who still phones her son to complain of the "mean and wicked" things they say about him in the papers...
Every day. morning and afternoon, the visitors seethed back and forth across the small Right Bank area where most of the 30 important houses of Paris' haute couture are concentrated. They sat through the collections of Patou and Heim, of Balmain and Fath. But most were waiting for the showing of a plump, pink, innocent-looking son of a fertilizer manufacturer. His name: Christian Dior. This year Dior celebrates his tenth year as a couturier, and every buyer in the trade has learned that it is unwise to buy in quantity before seeing the collection of Christian Dior...
Firmly grasping the coattails of the great man as he swept along to certain victory were the local candidates of his corruption-ridden party. Like U.S. politicians suddenly seeking to "get right with Lincoln" before Election Day, many Congress partisans, grown fat in office, forgot their bank rolls, their comfortable power and their American cars to recall the humility of Founding Father Mahatma Gandhi. Tailors in a dozen cities found themselves facing a run on khadi, the homespun cloth that Gandhi wore. Untouchables in village market squares were elbowed aside by candidates eager to drink at their untouchable wells. Some...
...wooden benches in the well-guarded recreation hall of the Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus sat 53 convicts-killers in for life, bank robbers, embezzlers, check forgers. Some wore the white jacket and trousers of hospital attendants (duty for which they had volunteered in the prison); others, fresh from work gangs, wore blue dungarees. As a man's name was called he walked upstairs to a room equipped as an emergency surgery, sat down and proffered a bare forearm. Dr. Chester M. Southam of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute then proceeded to inject live cancer cells...