Word: bank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...multiplied 1.2 trillion times. But in recent months the boliviano has been clearly and dramatically on the skids. Since March the government has imported 55 tons of freshly printed currency. Newspaper vendors in La Paz sit surrounded by such mountains of bills that they look like tellers in a bank...
Hopper claims that he does most of the cooking himself. "I'm the typical American husband," he adds, and the rare pronouncement, intended to amuse, echoes like a thunderbolt from the enveloping fog bank of his silence. Actually, Hopper fires off a fair share of personal observations, only he spaces them days and weeks apart. Examples: "American women are pretty flat-chested, on the whole.'' "The Pacific Ocean is sort of misty, greyish." "Armenians have no backs to their heads." "I don't see why people are crazy to import French paintings when there...
...pound steadied in the London money market, rose from $2.78¼ to $2.78⅝ Speculators who had been selling the pound short in the belief that it might be devalued, began withdrawing from the attack. Further indirect support is almost certain in the shape of a U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, possibly as high as $700,000,000, to help finance Britain's foreign trade...
...George Champion, 52, was named president, and David Rockefeller, 41, vice chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank in a move designed to bring younger men into top posts in New York City's No. i and the nation's No. 2 bank (first: Bank of America). Born in Illinios. Banker Champion graduated from Dartmouth in 1926 (where he played on the undefeated football team that year), spent seven years with various banks until he joined Chase in 1933, stayed on to become senior vice president in charge of the United States Department (lending and deposit relations with banks, other...
Banker William Rose of Ellenville, N.Y., third-generation president of Ellenville's Home National Bank (capital: $807,000), seemed the very model of a progressive small-town banker. A frugal, prosperous bachelor of 50 who daily carried his lunch -a cold fried-egg sandwich and a Thermos of iced tea-to the bank in a wicker bas ket, he was a tireless dabbler in civil affairs. He led the movement for the summertime Empire State Music Festival that attracted thousands of culture seekers and dollars to Ellenville, was a district president in 1953 of the State Bankers Association, head...