Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weathered Citizens' National Bank, Banker W. A. Hampson put Bentleyville's main problem this way: when the miners walked out last April, they had the OPA and plenty of savings and war bonds to fall back on. But that 59-day strike had burned off the fat, and put most of them, back on a payday to payday existence. "Now, with prices up-" he said, and let his voice trail away...
That about did for the talk. Around sundown, the miners drifted home for an early meal. Then they drifted back downtown to take in bank night at the Roosevelt Theatre (prize, $180), or even the P.T.A. benefit which the Pittsburgh Civic Ballet was putting on at the high school...
Dick jumped in like a man trying to beat a run on the bank. He went for the tigers first-they cost $1,000 apiece. But when he drove them up to the shelf with the buggy whip, big lions piled up at the chute and began killing little lions...
This mail-order bookkeeping service was the brain child of Jack Hession, 36, who learned his bookkeeping as a federal bank examiner, got his financial backing through his war job as a drill-press operator in Consolidated-Vultee's San Diego plant. On the next machine was Charles Silverman, who had always made money fast (he sold his Boston-New York bus line in 1929 for a fat price), but had not hung...
...that acts out the story is just about right. Dana Andrews is a bombardier captain who has lost his taste for both his soda-jerking job and his pretty, addle-pated wife (Virginia Mayo). Fredric March, after a stretch as a middle-aged infantry sergeant, now sees his stuffy bank job in a new perspective. Made shy by a long-deferred reunion with his wife (Myrna Loy) and grown-up daughter (Teresa Wright), March goes on one of the funniest benders ever filmed...