Word: bank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemingly had little to fear. Xieng Kho's garrison, dug in on a hillside above the village, consisted of 70 regulars of the royal Laotian army, 100 home guards and 25 counter-guerrillas who are called maquis by French-educated Laotians. For 25 miles along the western bank of the Nam Ma river, there were similar garrisons under the control of battalion headquarters at Muong Het. eight miles from the Vietnamese frontier. And they were backed up by six other battalions which had been rushed to the defense of Samneua province...
...president of the nation's biggest bank, Bank of America's S. (for Seth) Clark Beise-Windom High School, Windom, Minn...
...market for Government and corporate securities. Even as President Eisenhower drafted a special message urging Congress to lift the 4¼% interest-rate ceiling on long-term Government bonds, the Treasury announced that it had to pay 3.824% interest on short-term (91-day) bills, the highest since the bank holiday of March...
Died. Edward Eagle Brown, 74, pace-setting U.S. banker who as president (1934-45) and board chairman (1945-59) of Chicago's First National Bank helped carry Chicago's wobbly economy through the Depression, was one of the first to promote term loans, played an important part in shaping today's more flexible U.S. monetary system; of coronary thrombosis; in Chicago. An intellectual maverick for a banker, courtly Edward Brown, read a balance sheet or James Joyce with equal recall, was a lifelong Democrat who was hauled in by Chicago cops in 1912 while campaigning for Woodrow...
Died. Thomas Sivewright Catto, Lord Catto of Cairncatto, 80, who as governor (1944-49) of the Bank of England presided over its transition from a private to a nationalized institution, for years worked in such close collaboration with famed Economist Lord Keynes that the two were dubbed Lords Catto and Doggo; in Holmbury Saint Mary, England...