Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Side by side on the black bank, the steaming locomotives lay helplessly. Their crews, except for one engineman, were dead. Around them, like spilled matchsticks, were the baggage car (six dead) and the twisted Pullmans. In one, a rabbi whose legs were pinned under shapeless rubble murmured prayers for the injured and dying. Near him, a Red Cross worker chattered and sang to a blur of protruding arms and legs and bloodstained pillows while she tried to free her hand from a crushing weight. In another mess of metal, a soldier whose uncle lay dead near his feet quietly sipped...
...paper concluded that in order to purchase two pounds of beef today a bank clerk must work ten hours, a judge four hours, a mechanic six hours...
Without much hope, the Chinese Government was pressing hard in Washington for release of the $500 million Export-Import Bank loan, which has long been earmarked for China. In Nanking T. V. Soong tried to persuade UNRRA's fast-talking Deputy Director General R. G. A. Jackson to drop UNRRA's present relief program and instead to procure 1,000,000 bales of cotton and 200,000 tons of cereals for sale on China's open market at fixed prices...
...Chamizal. Mexico also hoped to discuss an old Rio Grande boundary question. El Chamizal (see map) lies within the city limits of El Paso-some 83 blocks, worth about $3,000,000. In 1911 a Canadian arbitrator awarded Mexico, which already held a portion of the north bank, a chunk of the disputed area. The U.S. turned down his verdict and stood on the boundary of the river's present banks...
...time of his death, professor Fraser was a trustee of the Cambridge Savings Bank, Treasurer of the Buckingham School, Trustee of the Avon Home, and a director of the East End Union...