Word: bank
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Though nominally a socialist, Mohieddin is above all a pragmatist. His tough policies for the nation (which he calls "Egypt," rather than the grandiose "United Arab Republic") have created such a favorable impression abroad that the U.S. has resumed its food shipments, and France, Kuwait, and the Chase Manhattan Bank have kicked in $75 million in emergency credit as a vote of confidence in Egypt's new direction...
...state-run businesses went an order to fire all workers who sign up for the airlift. To make life doubly difficult and possibly discourage any more Cubans from signing up to leave, the Communists also announced that before departing, would-be exiles must return every peso withdrawn from their bank accounts since Sept. 28-the date of Castro's "open door" speech...
Better still, the World Bank-absent from Brazil since 1959-agreed to lend $80 million early this year for power projects. The International Monetary Fund, another long-absent investor, chipped in $125 million, plans to offer $120 million to $180 million more in new standby credit next year. And the U.S., which cut Alianza aid to Brazil to a trickle under Goulart, has granted more than $500 million in technical and economic assistance...
...golf and the recovery of my health." With that, command of one of the nation's largest and least understood financial empires shifted to President John R. Beckett, 47, the architect of a five-year expansion that has transformed Transamerica, once the world's No. 1 bank holding company, into a huge financial department store...
Transamerica was set up in 1928 by A. P. Giannini as a vehicle to expand his California-dominating Bank of America across the U.S. The company beat an antitrust suit in court, but Giannini later decided to divorce Transamerica from the bank anyway. By 1956, the separated company had built itself into a holding company that controlled 23 banks in eleven Western states, had also spread out into insurance and a few other fields. Congress ended all that with a law (aimed particularly at Transamerica) that forced the company either to get out of banking or cease all its other...