Word: bank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Genevieve went to Baghdad, where she and Feisal were secretly married. Who believed it? A Manhattan surrogate court judge, that's who. The judge ruled that she is Feisal's lawful widow, making her eligible for $124,000 in the late King's Manhattan bank account, untold amounts more abroad if foreign courts agree...
Leonards, which sprawls over four city blocks, sells items ranging from barn siding to $1.99 ''Ivy League Pants." Several years ago, the Leonards bought a big parking lot for 5,000 cars on the bank of the Trinity River and began experimenting with free bus rides from it to the store. The buses lured customers back, but provided a slow and hot ride. Obediah thought of a subway. The Leonards acquired five old Washington, D.C., streetcars, spiffed them up with stainless steel and new seats, installed air conditioning, and carved a double-track tunnel between store...
...turboprop with a seating capacity of 200, the largest passenger plane now flying. That was just the ship for Thomson, a collection of Thomson aides and 138 guests, all from the upper registers of British business: John Bedford of Debenhams (department stores), H. E. Darvill of Barclays Bank, Whitney Straight of Rolls-Royce, Henry Lazell of Beecham, along with representatives of Crosse & Blackwell, Unilever, Dunlop Rubber, Guinness, Cunard...
...fill in the orchestra's immense deficit. The musicians, astonished at being celebrities, have largely resigned themselves to the occasional pain of Szell's whip; 67 of them now own homes in Cleveland, butchers wave to them at the supermarket, and, as one says, "even the bank knows you have roots if you're in the orchestra...
...forced to take a company loyalty oath. Only four Carthuisan monks know the formula for Chartreuse, and travel between monasteries to make it. The ingredients for Coke's basic 7-X formula are ordered from separate suppliers in undisclosed quantities, and the formula is kept in a bank vault and in the heads of Chief Chemist Orville May and one assistant. Competing Dr. Pepper, also made from a secret formula, never allows the four executives who know it to fly on the same airplane. At Italy's Campari distillery, where Campari bitters are made for export...