Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their crowning achievement was buying into State Street in 1936. The newcomers were none too popular with such established State Streeters as Marshall Field and Carson Pirie Scott. But Goldblatt bargains were attractive, and sales zoomed. Maurice and Nathan kept their profits in one bank account. They drove to work in the same Duesenberg...
...Pakistan's government had a budget, no one could find out what it was. The country started off with about 200,000,000 rupees ($60,000,000) from the Reserve Bank of India, but that was long since spent. Two weeks ago the British Overseas Airways Corp. was paid by Pakistan Government check on the Bank of India for transporting 30,000 officials and their families from Delhi to Karachi. The check bounced. B.O.A.C. subsequently got its money, but other creditors are still waiting anxiously. Civil servants in Karachi have had their salaries cut and their housing allowances stopped...
...campesino's opposition has only grown stouter. He wants oxen for plowing and cows for milk-not pesos, which he is afraid either to put in a bank or keep at home. The fact that his neighbor's cattle are infected with foot-&-mouth disease seems to him a poor reason for shooting his own herd...
...kept riding five or six races a day at fees of $10 for a losing mount and $25 for a win (now the rate is often $25 and $50), plus bonuses, plus his contract salary. His income was higher than many bank presidents'. Johnny now breeds horses and cattle on his own ranch, averages close to $100,000 a year by riding. What is his technique for winning a race? Says Johnny, with the air of a man who has made it all clear: "I just keep bitin' and chewin', bitin' and chewin...
...gentlemen prefer poker. Blackjack, learnedly classified as "vingt-et-un," is a low born associate of spinning ivories on khaki blankets, and is favored only by those majoring in R.O.T.C. The advent of General Education has definitely entrenched the five card classic, with numerous aberrations localized somewhat to the bank of the Charles...