Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salle Hotel's big, ornate lobby in Chicago's Loop noticed a strange yellow light reflecting from polished table tops, from marble and window glass. The wavering glare grew. They looked up and saw flames billowing gustily across the dark, varnished paneling above the elevator bank...
Todd's fervor has joined Communists and Nationalists in an incredible alliance against the river. At the Kaifeng gap the two factions worked peaceably within a few miles of each other. In Communist-infested Shantung local leaders promised to mend 400 miles on each river bank and to resettle half a million people now living in the proposed river bed-a painfully arduous job of dismantling and moving 1,400 villages house-by-house. The Nationalists, for their part, agreed to pay coolies in the Communist area $1,000 a day from the Nanking treasury...
...exception was A. P. Giannini's giant Bank of America. It has continued to lend the legal maximum of 60% of market value. Result: last April, Bank of America lent $26,996,000 in Los Angeles County while the Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles lent only $2,399,000 (in 1941, Bank of America lent less than twice as much as Security-First National...
...Said Bank of America's Board Chairman Al Gock: "We turn down few loans...
Romantic Linda is the heroine of Pursuit. When she and her sisters grew up, Linda's adolescent dreams ended in her marrying a dry-as-dust son of a governor of the Bank of England. She left him to marry an even drier & dustier Communist, and was at her lowest ebb when her Galahad turned up-a French duke whose wicked charms should set U.S. bosoms aflame from coast to coast...