Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stuck Pig. In Mobile, Ala., a housewife, short of cash, guiltily broke into her baby's piggy bank, found only a note inside: "I.O.U. $5. (signed) Daddy...
...York had two bigtime holdups within 24 hours. In Boston, Alfred Parkhurst, son of Harvard University's assistant business manager, went to jail for two years for stealing G.I. students' checks from mailboxes. In Des Moines, pretty Mrs. Opal Dixon was caught after she held up a bank by waving a hypodermic syringe and yelling that it was filled with explosives. It was filled with mouthwash...
...that he expected to get paid at the rate of $12,000 a year. Each appointed state officers. Hummon's had the edge, since they were confirmed by the state senate. But the processes of government began to succumb to a sort of galloping schizophrenia. The 200 Georgia banks which handle state money didn't know which governor to recognize; and one-the Fulton National Bank of Atlanta-prepared to institute legal action to find out who was really...
Fossil Punts. In Britain, where amateur archeologists rummage for everything from Piltdown Man to Saxon arrowheads, two Yorkshire brothers struck pay mud in the River Humber. Since boyhood, Ted and William Wright had scoured the country near Hull, looking for likely sites. Best bet, they decided, was a mud bank in the Humber; it ought to be full of interesting stuff washed down the river since ancient days...
...Kingdom. From his headquarters in Dallas' 30-story Mercantile Bank Building, Leo Corrigan surveys a real-estate kingdom which extends from Shreveport, La. through Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio and down to the Rio Grande valley. In Dallas alone he operates 28 shopping centers, three skyscrapers, two apartment hotels, four suburban hotels and several hundred apartment houses. With his new buys, Corrigan's holdings are estimated at close to $79 million...