Word: bank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will administer vigorously the soil bank, a good Democratic idea...
...would urge consideration of what could be called a "legume bank" to change the emphasis from reducing cash crop production to increasing acreage of soil-building crops...
VETERANS' HOME LOANS will get help from David Dubinsky's International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Dubinsky signed agreement with Chase Manhattan Bank to invest $20 million (some 10% of union reserves) in VA home mortgages...
...Washington. British Atomic Chief Sir Edwin Plowden told a World Bank symposium that when the world's first civilian power plant starts operating at Calder Hall this month "the total cost of power . . . should be approximately the same as that from coal-or oil-fired stations in the United Kingdom." Plowden also sketched a timetable for commercial nuclear power in other parts of the world, foresaw its arrival in France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Spain and South Australia in the early 1960s. Scandinavian countries in the 1970s. Russia and the U.S., added Plowden. "will have a number of 'power...
...currency and trade barriers, has already taken big steps to make the mark fully convertible. Since last May Germans have been able to buy foreign securities in any country with which West Germany has a payment or trade agreement, are also allowed to maintain foreign currency bank accounts for the first time since 1931. Equally important, trade has been liberalized until today less than 6% of West Germany's imports and exports comes under restrictive, bilateral treaties; all the rest is bought and sold on a freely competitive basis. Fortnight ago, West Germany removed restrictions on German travelers, will...