Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after Bevin's casual reference to Lend-Lease, Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton made a not-so-casual plea for crisis aid from the International Bank (whose staff calls its present quarters, one of London's deepest air-raid shelters, "the second Fort Knox"). Bank President John J. McCloy pointed out that the Bank was designed to make only commercially sound loans, attractive to private investors, and not to grant emergency aid not likely to be repaid...
Then his troubles began. The forwarding agent told him that to secure payment, he must submit six copies of his bill to a bank. Three times he went to the bank, waited in long queues, while orders piled up at his one-man workshop...
...owned by the W. L. Mackenzie King Woodside Foundation, which hopes some day to make it a national shrine. Meantime it is rented to Polish-born Tony Kielbasa, a tanner. Mr. King pointed to the spot where he and his brother had once pitched their tent and to a bank that had once been covered with violets. He talked of his mother's bed of lilies-of-the-valley. A giant tulip tree in the grove behind the house had grown so much he failed to recognize it. While he was wandering about the grounds, four-year-old Marilyn...
...soaring food prices, the hunt turned last week to Chicago's grain pits. As corn for future delivery rose to $2.63¼ a bushel, an alltime high, and wheat soared to $2.87, Vermont's Senator Ralph E. Flanders, ex-president of Boston's Federal Reserve Bank, thought he had spotted the devil. It was Speculation. "The situation today in the commodity markets is comparable to that in the stockmarket in 1929," said he, "and it could have the same disastrous results." He demanded that trading on margin be eliminated and that trading in grains...
That's what the New Yorker thought of the Harvard University Bank last year, and that's what the band intends to be this year. With 80 regulars returning to wear the red coats and white pants, the music makers need only a baton twirler to set things in motion before the opening whistle at Soldiers Field...