Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...schools, the farm credit bank, the country roads, and the rest of President Grau's program for raising rural standards of living and abating the tyranny of King Sugar, Nicolás said: "The work the politicians do for the campesino is tomorrow, and I have to live today. I have never received anything from Havana, and don't know of anyone who has. To the politicians the campesino is just a poor campesino, and they let it go at that...
...Koenigswald found in Java before the war a great bank of soft, eroding stone peppered with ancient fossils. He organized a gang of natives to pick up bones after every rain. At last he got a hatful of humanlike fragments...
...Figures. Burroughs was founded by an Auburn, N. Y. bank clerk, William Seward Burroughs, who got tired of adding up long columns of figures. In 1881, he went to St. Louis, and with $700 borrowed from a dry-goods merchant he tried to invent an adding machine...
Five years lafer Burroughs thought he had perfected his "Arithometer." He built 50 machines, but couldn't sell them: nobody but Burroughs could make them work. After five more years Burroughs perfected his machine. But bankers were not interested. Bank clerks (who could do more than add) were cheap...
...packed up his three roads (Chesapeake & Ohio, Nickel Plate, Pere Marquette) and left A.A.R.'s house. As he left, he fired a Parthian shot: The A.A.R. "has encouraged . . . noncompetitive practices," thus also encouraged Federal antitrust action. It has fought to perpetuate discriminatory freight rates helpful to the Eastern, bank-run roads which dominate its affairs. "To squeeze the last dollar of revenue from obsolete equipment . . . technological development has been discouraged." To Young, wartime difficulties were not a sufficient excuse for the way roadbeds and trains had bruised and beaten passengers. And, he added...