Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Small World. In South Bank, England, John South, driving east, crashed into Robert North, driving west...
...million credit loan from the U.S. Export-Import Bank was not particularly disturbing, nor were the new restrictions (a limit of $150 a year) on pleasure travel in the U.S. Restrictions on imports from the U.S. were harder to take. Finance Minister Douglas Charles Abbott said they would be "temporary." But for the time being (best estimate: three to five years) Canadians would do without U.S. cars, radios, refrigerators, jewelry, candy, fresh fruits and vegetables. Even less welcome was the new 25% excise tax on goods manufactured in Canada out of U.S. parts...
...late Wendell Willkie's son, Philip, 27, was doing all right too. While he waited in Manhattan to take his New York bar exams, he was elected vice president of the Rushville, Ind. National Bank. He would do long-distance commuting to the monthly directors' meetings till he moved back among the Hoosiers, as he planned...
...also the president of Louisville's Stock Yards Bank (because it is just across the way from the Bourbon Stockyards, he likes to call it "a stinking good bank"). Sanders works hard at both jobs and feels they go together fine. "Because I live in the same world my people do, I am closer to them," he says. "And I'm a better banker as the result of my preaching...
...look-alike-was born 49 years ago, the son of a Kentucky farmer and stock trader. When he was eight he went to work as an errand boy in the stockyards, and he gave up his schooling after a single semester of high school. In 1932 he joined the bank as a clerk, and has been there ever since...