Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...budget also: ¶ Estimated Soviet state income at 333.5 billion rubles. Chief sources of revenue: 200.8 billion from a turnover tax on all economic enterprises, 21 billion profit taxes from industry, 23.5 billion individual income taxes (cut from 39.8 billion in 1945), and 25.5 billion from bond issues and bank deposits...
Pros & Cons. Shining, new $100 million Volta Redonda ($45 million came from the U.S. Export-Import Bank) still had plenty of "ifs" to it. Important production will not get under way before early next year, and the full output of 750,000 tons of steel per year will not be reached until even later. Volta Redonda's critics claim that the plant is badly placed, that the output will be high-cost. Iron ore must travel south from the rich Minas Geraes deposits over a rickety railroad. Coal comes north from the Santa Catarina mines by an inefficient ship...
Urbanity Plus. Frank Case was a clerk at the Algonquin when it opened in 1902, as a West 44th Street neighbor of Sherry's and Delmonico's. Soon he was its manager, then its owner. As such, he had no use for the social register or big bank accounts. They made for dull company. He was determined "to get the Arts." He got what he wanted by providing the Arts with good food, reasonable bills which didn't always have to be paid promptly, and with his own unfailing urbanity...
...Grub Stake. In Honolulu, Joseph Rodriguez told police that his lunch pail had been stolen, said he used it as a bank, had just deposited 3 sandwiches...
...With some big appointments to make, President Truman named Eugene Meyer as President of the International Bank, Senator Warren Austin as U.S. member of the U.N. Security Council and John W. Snyder as Secretary...