Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Export-Import Bank authorized France to use $93 million (and Italy $32 million) in untapped reconstruction credits for emergency purchases of fuel. The Army bought $50 million worth of French francs to pay off the first installment on wartime debts for rent, transportation and food. The biggest lump sum was a preliminary divvy of $360 million in gold looted by the Germans: $104 million to France, $29.4 million to Austria, $4 million to Italy, $40 million to The Netherlands...
...reporters: the Federal Reserve Board's Alexander Gerschenkron of Washington; the Federal Reserve Bank's Paul A. Baran of New York; the Australian Government's financial adviser, Colin Clark; Columbia University's Professor Abram Bergson; Aron Yugow, a free-lance specialist on Soviet industry...
...Lyallpur, Moslem shopkeepers refuse to sell durable goods, because the increasing scarcity is sure to force the price up; moreover, even if the shopkeeper did sell, he would have no place to bank the money (for Hindus and Sikhs were the bankers) and no wholesaler from whom to buy more goods (for Hindus and Sikhs were the wholesalers). In Lahore, on the other hand, there is a corrupt buyers' paradise in looted goods. A refrigerator goes for 100 rupees ($30), a radio for 30. Parker "51" fountain pens, which used to sell for 60 rupees...
...business counts its dollars, the termites of Fascism and Communism eat into the crumbling remains of European freedom. The price we may have to pay for our sloth and half-hearted ness will make the billions spent in the last war look like the proceeds of a piggy-bank raid...
...usual opportunities for scattered oaths and point-bank shots at a stationary target will be taken from mis-seated undergraduates when the Council ticket committee passes out its announced poll tomorrow night. By what seems to be a friendly agreement between the Harvard Athletic Association and the student body's representatives, the results of the balloting will determine next year's tickets--all of which gives the voter the responsibility to stop howling and think...