Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old war veteran named Charles J. F. Porter went to New York's National City Bank, asked for a $312 loan, got it, and was then startled half to death. Bank officials discovered he had borrowed the billionth dollar granted by the institution's personal loan department and celebrated by airily telling him he wouldn't have to pay the money back...
...guests are invited to Chiang's household, Chen almost never appears. Yet with probably no other person, not excepting Madame Chiang, does the Generalissimo spend more of his waking hours. In Chungking days, the two would cross the Yangtze together to the presidential home high above the south bank. Watchers would see two silent figures in the Gimo's power launch -Chiang in unadorned uniform, Chen in mandarin gown, reading each other's thoughts, rarely uttering a word...
...Techniques of Scranton. Forty-eight-year-old Chen, like 60-year-old Chiang, was born in Chekiang province. Of eight brothers, only he and Chen Kuo-fu (eight years older and now the serene, tuberculous director of the powerful Farmers' Bank of China) are still alive. Chen's childhood was poor and insecure. But among Chen's kin was an uncle, doughty Chen Chi-mei, revolutionary general and patron of young Chiang Kaishek. On his deathbed, Uncle Chen summoned Chiang...
...anyone else, but that the postwar backlog of orders was so bad that even our own people often had to wait a year or two. None of them knew until I told them that Russia has thus far refused to join every international economic agency, from the World Bank to the International Trade Organization...
...forest, where the baton of the "invisible choirmaster" conducts music that used to make Frank's heart soar "on wings of agonized joy." When the spring earth becomes "an orb of gold afloat in rainbows," Frank just counts the orbs of gold that he has in the bank. He turns literary prostitute, and starts writing "poisoned pap" that sells well. He even, like Author Caldwell, writes a novel ("with Sex aplenty") about "international bankers" who "cunningly and sedulously plotted wars for their own profit. This was what the American people wanted ... a scapegoat for their fear. . . . Sound and fury...