Word: bank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then accused the Anglo-French of having destroyed from the air. In 2½ days last week two powerful German lifting craft and a pair of tugs cleared a passage past the dynamited bridge with so little apparent difficulty that a disquieted Egyptian army officer watching from the bank remarked: "By Allah, we did not expect them to work that fast...
...sudden mildness was not far to seek. Since 1936 Russia has been sitting on more than half a billion dollars worth of Spanish gold. When the civil war was only three months old, pro-Communist Finance Minister Juan Negrin secretly ordered 7,800 crates of gold out of the Bank of Spain, had it trucked to Cartagena and then shipped to Russia in charge of four bank officials, for "safekeeping." The Russians kept the Loyalist officials in Moscow for months, counting and recounting the gold. By the time they were released, the Republican government was shattered and in flight...
...week Washington's statisticians, tentatively casting up sums for the year, estimated the total investment to date at $7 billion-probably enough to keep Latin America the area most favored by U.S. investors.* Adding in U.S. Government loans of more than $1 billion and indirect private investments, e.g., bank loans, stocks and bonds, the experts put the grand total of all U.S. funds invested in Latin America up to now at $10 billion. Biggest contribution toward the year's fat increase: well over $300 million for oil concessions in Venezuela (TIME, Sept...
...State Department has said it would revoke Worthy's passport on his return to the U.S., and was "freezing" his bank accounts here...
APRIL. A Radcliffe girl is arrested for holding up the bank previously looted by an MIT student. She will explain, "I lust for experience" and then hang bullfight posters in her cell. Archibald MacLeish will volunteer his services to the football team claiming that "poetry should be brought to motion." Elsie buys out the Business School...