Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beasts lacked friends. From German Tiergarten many a quadruped had vanished into a stewpot. In Vienna a dozen Schonbrunn Zoo camels, whose colorful history included careers in a traveling circus, and a stretch with the Russian Army as gun carriers, ended up as steaks. But in Malmo, Sweden, a bank account established in 1941 by bird-loving citizens to cover the needs of visiting swans had grown to 4,000 kroner (over...
...news spread to Haifa. Thousands stopped work and swarmed angrily toward Bat Galim. They passed Barclay's Bank Building, shattered by a bomb soon after the ship's interception (two Jews were killed). Then they ran into tough, maroon-bereted British paratroopers, who barred their way. Jews and soldiers traded insults. Then the Jews went away into the dusk of Sabbath eve. Four hours after the first encounter aboard the Arlosoroff the fight went out of the immigrants on the ship...
...siren which means foul in horse racing, even L'Humanite's editors seemed to think the Russian sweep had been rather too much of a good thing. But in their shoddy, Left-Bank hotel, the Russian ladies explained it: "The French women do not plan. We won because we work and plan...
...children found the remains of Gardiner floating in the water under circumstances suggesting a skating accident and subsequent drowning. They quickly rushed up the bank to summon police assistance...
President Miguel Aleman was sure to raise the subject of an Export-Import Bank loan-possibly as much as $400,000,000-to make his ambitious new program of irrigation and industrialization stick. But that would take time, and there were no experts in the Truman party of seven. Perhaps when Aleman came north to repay the call in April the two men would be more ready to talk...