Word: bank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...robbery the next night, the local gendarmes were waiting for them. During the struggle that followed, Kocero was caught by a shotgun's blast, but somehow he managed to stagger off badly wounded into the night. Two days later police discovered his body on the bank of a mountain stream two miles away...
...Fourth of July, but Frank Sinatra, 46, is so big for independence that he started his own revolution in Paris. During a wild night on the barricades, tossing firecrackers and four-letter sizzlers, Frank and his Hollywood citizens led French photographers to hot spots from the Left Bank to the Champs Elysees. As a cherry bomb burst in the air outside one boite, a French news-poule asked, "Is that a game for middleaged men?", to which Frankie glared redly, "Say that again and I'll smash your face in." She didn't, but the pack routed...
...back country and moves to Jefferson (in The Town and The Mansion), his tribe begins to infiltrate and increase. There is Montgomery Ward Snopes the pornographer, Wat Snopes the carpenter, Virgil Snopes the barber and brothel athlete, and a score of others. When Flem takes over the Sartoris Bank, his success is proof of the loosened grip of the older, principled families...
...Banks are usually good mirrors of prosperity, but the $312 billion U.S. banking industry is sharing in the current economic advance to a degree that surprises even it. Bankers, in fact, are making more money than ever before. Last week alltime high first-half earnings were reported by several banks, including the two largest ones, San Francisco's Bank of America and New York's Chase Manhattan. Despite their rising operating costs and the higher interest payments they are forced to pay to remain competitive, the nation's major banks earned 9% more...
...overextended banks have failed lately. Last week the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. announced the collapse of the First State Bank of Dell City, Texas. Reason: an excess of bad loans. It was the third small bank failure for that reason this year...