Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hampstead a bank clerk expressed the thoughts of thousands : "If I'd known about this, I would have cleared out last year. South Africa or Australia...
...crackers were stale, so the little man with the bright eyes drew some women's heads on them. The proprietor of the Left Bank bistro in the Rue Mabillon was furious; he threw them to his frowsy dog, Peggy. When the artist left, a sad-faced patron said to the proprietor: "Those little crackers that Peggy ate were worth about fifty thousand francs apiece. That was Picasso...
...their milk to Detroit's dairies-Resentful of the Association's sometimes high-handed methods and always complicated formula for buying milk, the farmers were glad to trade $75,000 for one-year promissory notes to help G.I.s. A $75,000 mortgage on the plant and 39 bank-financed jeeps completed the organization; the Servicemen's Dairy Cooperative Association was ready for business...
...increasing fondness for having his own way was generally looked upon as one of the chief reasons why Publisher-Banker Eugene Meyer quit the presidency two months ago. With backing from the National Advisory Council, the Government agency set up to watch over the big U.S. investment in the Bank (nearly 35% of its stock), Collado apparently felt that he was strong enough to get what he wanted-even if the president wanted something else. One thing Meyer especially feared was that, if he did not have more control, loans would be granted not on their financial merits...
...week's end, John McCloy had still not made up his mind. But the longer the Bank's presidency remained unfilled, the gloomier grew prospects for floating the billions in securities needed to finance world reconstruction. Private bankers, lukewarm at best, had now cooled to the whole project. The World Bank's prestige had fallen so low that some Manhattan bankers talked about getting the unissued securities stricken from New York State's "legal list," i.e., the list of securities in which savings banks may invest...