Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Legislation widening the lending authority of the Export-Import Bank so that the Bank can advance dollars needed to buy Canadian and Latin American goods for Europe...
Total funds, therefore, which Congress would be called upon to appropriate for next year were more than $9 billion. Not included were loans to Europe from the World Bank and the Export-Import Bank, which would not have to be appropriated by Congress. These loans would probably reach $1.5 billion the first year...
Ditch diggers and bank presidents wore bright-colored Aloha shirts to work; women appeared in gay, ankle-length muu-muus,* modern models of the Mother Hubbards which early missionaries had hung on native Hawaiian girls. A big, bronzed, part-Hawaiian gas company foreman named Charles Kramer acted as Alii, or king of the celebration, attended parades, parties, sports events, suitably attired in scanty trunks, a long yellow cloak and a bright-colored helmet...
...remote granary, on a quiet night back their trucks up close, bore a hole, and fill up. A single haul may be worth as much as $1,300. Said Jake Sims, director of Oklahoma's Bureau of Criminal Investigation: "They've got a better racket than the bank robber. It's not only safer-there's more money...
...taxes are cut to the point where expenditures exceed revenue, it will be necessary to reduce the Marshall Plan to a scale which will be ineffective and therefore only a waste of good money or to increase the national debt to finance European aid. In the latter case bank reserves would be hiked by the sale of additional Federal securities with the result that more credit would be available to strain the economic balance of the nation...