Word: banke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...urgent call for blood donors at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital went out from Mrs. Dallas Hext, Adams House secretary, last night. The donations will be used to replenish the hospital's blood bank, which has been exhausted in transfusions to Mrs. Hext's mother. Mrs. Hext will take calls from those interested and arrange appointments from her office at Adams House...
Cleanup. Besides, it might not be necessary. According to Santiago gossip, González' anti-Communist action had already won the promise of a badly needed $40 million World Bank loan. Visiting U.S. industrialists, who have told González that they would be interested in investing in Chile if ever he got the best of his Commies, could watch the rapid climb of Chile's stockmarket last week and draw their own conclusions. Lota coal shares were up ten points in five days...
...present, both the U.S. dollar and the Dominican peso will be legal tender, but after three months, by Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's law, the dollar may be withdrawn from general circulation. The Central Bank will have the right to control all dollar exchange. Chief advantage for Dictator Trujillo: complete control over all his country's dollar purchases...
...Cataclysmic Consequences." Yet most businessmen and economists were more noticeably worried last week than they had been in a long while. R. H. Macy's President Jack Straus called on all businessmen to "fight for a lower level of prices." Murray Shields, vice president of the Bank of the Manhattan Co., declared that "recent developments have increased the risk that we shall experience an economic setback." Said the Federal Reserve Board's Menc S. Szymczak: the U.S. is now facing "the cataclysmic consequences of runaway inflation...
Ambitious men moved in, capable of trying to dominate the entire Comstock. One was a cold little bank manager named Sharon. One of his exploits was the "Hale & Norcross corner" in 1868, by which he got control of an important mine. When production declined and stock shares fell soon afterward, Sharon resorted to a common technique: he sold most of his stock to avoid paying stock assessments, knowing that he could buy it back cheap when new ore was uncovered. At this point Mackay and his partner Jim Fair, as a gamble, began their own raid on Hale & Norcross...