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Word: bankbooks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cope with-abnormally heavy speculators. > Formalize the pool by giving it a formidable gold stock of its own for the first time. Until now each member nation has been billed monthly for gold that has been sold to meet speculative market demand. The new scheme might involve a "bankbook" arrangement under which members would deposit large amounts of gold with the pool-while continuing to count such gold in their own reserves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Bullion Battle | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

Jack Kennedy's financial status has always been kept pretty much a closed bankbook. But last week the public got at least a peek into the President's purse -and it appeared pretty full. Working on information provided him by the Kennedy family and making some educated guesses, Washington Correspondent Fletcher Knebel wrote a seven-article series about the President's finances for the Des Moines Register and the Minneapolis Tribune. Knebel estimated Kennedy's worth at about $10 million, thanks mostly to trust funds set up years ago by Joseph P. Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Money Talk | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

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