Word: bank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Appointed T. Graydon Upton, vice president of the foreign department of the Philadelphia National Bank, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, in charge of international finance affairs, and U.S. executive director of the World Bank...
...task of drawing up a new law for future mining and oil exploitation, a matter of vital interest to such firms as U.S. Stanvac and Royal Dutch Shell. In the nationalized Dutch Handelsbank, the new supervisory body consists of an army captain, a police officer and a bank official. When a labor representative from the Red-dominated SOBSI labor federation demanded a seat on the committee, the army officer ordered him from the office...
...grind and he does it without the dogma or confusion which usually attend the dramatic genre. He retells the story of Job in contemporary setting and retells it in poetry. J.B. is a successful business man married to a pretty wife, father of four children and president of a bank, endowed with all the material blessings our time can bestow. And he is a "good and loyal servant" to the God who tempts him in response to the taunts of Satan. His children die by accident, war and murder; his home and his bank are destroyed; his wife leaves...
...There is no reason not to give," Rothenberg insisted. "It doesn't hurt, and it doesn't take much time." An added inducement for donating is the Harvard blood bank policy of supplying free blood, through the Red Cross, to students and members of their immediate family...
...just as soon spit in Mrs. Bella H.'s dimming eyes as destroy this nation's chance for harmony and well-being are the fat men in blue serge suits who don't know the first principle of economics. If you spend more than you've got in the bank, poverty and God knows what else results...