Word: bank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end the Left Bank gave its considered verdict. Result: an easy victory for Moderate Julien Tardieu. Poujade was fourth with 19,906 votes, a humiliating 6.4% of the total vote...
...highway to Parkersburg 30 miles away, has a new $350,000 elementary school, which Kaiser is building and is to be leased to the county for $1 a year. Telephone service has been vastly improved with 200 miles of new lines; city gas lines have been extended. Ravenswood's bank has added more than $1,000,000 in new assets in two years, and the local loan association has financed 200 new houses since 1955, figures to finance many hundreds more. About the only real worry in Ravenswood today is how to get its residents to serve on jury duty...
...place, the modern, competitive banker is often as friendly as a used-car dealerneering services for "the little man," they now compete for every consumer's dollar, are putting up new branches everywhere to catch the smallest as well as the biggest account. Philadelphia National Bank, long known as a rich man's institution, today has 21 branches, 150,000 accounts, and its assets have grown by more than $900 million. Bankers are also learning the values of advertising to get their message across, spent $82 million last year v. $22 million in 1946. New York's Chase Manhattan Bank...
...their campaign to boost savings, U.S. bankers no longer aim their pitch solely at the head of the household, but go after the entire family. The Bank of America scrambles so eagerly after children's accounts that it even sends messengers around to schools to collect the youngsters' pennies, has 1,000,000 children's accounts totaling $25 million. Other banks are learning the same lesson. New York's Dollar Savings Bank has discovered that juvenile savers not only increase its immediate funds but that 75% of them keep their accounts into adulthood. Every banker is doing his best...
...bank salesmanship is also transforming the industry's old-fashioned marble mausoleums into modern buildings of shimmering glass, bright aluminum and soft background music, creating an inviting atmosphere that increases business. To call attention to itself, the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society has even gone so far as to deck out its tellers and passbooks in gaudy Duncan plaid. Result: there were 2,200 new accounts in the first few months...