Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...percent of all of Austria's industry, including the Zistersdorf oilfield, Credit-Anstalt bank, factories making electrical machinery, tools, locomotives...
...chummy note to "Lew," World Bank President Jack McCloy suggested to his brother-in-law Lewis Douglas, U.S. Ambassador to Britain, that the World Bank might provide funds for Ruhr reconstruction. But since Germany is not eligible for a World Bank loan, a way would first have to be found to get around the bank's legal restrictions...
...four minutes to scan the sea ahead. He is equally alert to the danger and the beauty of the North Atlantic, and the slightest change of light brings him to his feet. "Look at that, sir. Look at that patch of sunlight to the right of the fog bank ahead. Did you ever see anything like that?" he roars, his sea-blue eyes glowing at the sight. After 44 years at sea he still acts like a man from the Rockies seeing blue water for the first time...
...summer of their discontent, Britons were escaping to the quiet glories of the English countryside. They rattled along in tinny Austins and on sputtering motorbikes, queued up for trains and buses in ideal summer weather. But toward this happily perspiring pastorale, occasioned by the traditional Bank Holiday weekend, swept an oppressive storm. Britain was again in crisis, the gravest in the series that began with peace...
...couples met in a huge Left Bank apartment. They had foregathered to practice the latest Parisian intellectual pretension-intimatism. Present were the high priest of the movement, dynamic René Sébille, 34, and some of his ardent disciples. The men were journalists and writers. The girls were young and pretty...