Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stillman infirmary, which reported no cases of heat prostration, and a sight of the Charles River bank yesterday afternoon, showed that the College was instinctively responding to the scientific dicta of Emmons...
Seth Ramkrishna Dalmia is Mr. Big No. 3 of Indian Big Business.* He owns six newspapers, an airline, a big insurance company, a bank and most of India's cement factories. He also has four wives. Last month Businessman Dalmia, a Hindu, summoned the press to pink lemonade, vanilla ice cream and green gage plums on the lawn of his big house in New Delhi. Then he read a 2,500-word statement. "I ask that people treat the cow and look after it as well as they look after their mother."† Soon thereafter, his six newspapers began...
...Company. A Scottish-born financier (director of the Bank of England), he was new to the old company when in 1931 he was called to be its governor to get it out of a financial jam. Today, Sir Patrick, 59, a big man with a glowing pink complexion, white toothbrush mustache and shaggy grey eyebrows, knows first-hand the many-sided operations of the company better than any of his predecessors. This week he is in Canada, to add to his knowledge...
...this the beginning of the end of the export boom? Some exporters thought it might be. They had watched import restrictions and licensing systems mushroom all over the world. In its Monthly Review, issued last week, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York told...
Gold and dollar holdings of all foreign countries (except the Soviet Union), said the bank, now amount to $18 billion, up $4 billion over 1939. But a large part of this hoard is immobilized in private hoards or as currency reserves. And nations which need gold and dollars least hold the most. An example: liberated western Europe has less than half of its prewar stock of $5.4 billion. But well-fed, well-clothed Switzerland alone holds $1.4 billion of the Continent's hoard...