Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...furiously booking passage home again. Walker had publicly announced that the books of Transamerica were padded with good will, inflated evaluations of subsidiary companies; that Giannini's $1,100,000,000 estimate of its worth was $800 million too high. He had sold the New York banks, booted Gian nini men out of Transamerica, was preparing to shuck off Bank of America...
Giannini landed at Quebec, crossed Canada secretly, got to Lake Tahoe before anyone knew he was in the U.S. He began a giant proxy fight, barnstormed California, finally recaptured control, with 63% of the stockholders' proxies. He went back in triumph to the Bank of America's big building in San Francisco...
...bank should satisfy the critical eye of its padrone. It has 3,300,000 depositors, one for every three people in California. Every day 3,000 men & women walk into its multiple lobbies, walk out with loans. Bank of America is still Hollywood's great financial house; last week it had passed over a staggering sum to the new producing company which will film Erich...
...boom brawled on, the Bank of America would finance the lion's share of all California's crops, of all the new automobiles, iceboxes, radios, houses. Bank of America was now training 1,000 veterans to go out as veterans' business councilors. It was making loans as low as $10 to members of 4-H Clubs. It had lent $1,500 to Joe Szabo, clothing operator, who in four years boomed it into a $1,500,000-a-year business. Vyrl Coppersmith, farm boy of Chino, had got $250, bought himself two steers...
...Bank of America employes pushed and prodded business. They got help from above. Said a B. of A. handbook...