Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special train last week backed into geranium-decked Union Station at Savannah, Ga. Out piled delegates from 34 member nations of the Bretton Woods Fund and Bank. The town, still smarting from Lady Astor's recent wisecrack (see PEOPLE) had washed its face for the occasion, turned out en masse to cheer the delegates...
...General Oglethorpe Hotel, amid the pines and palmettos on nearby Wilmington Island, the delegates turned to the immediate business of choosing a permanent site for the Fund and Bank, adopting bylaws, electing directors, deciding how new members may join...
...introduced the lonely first-comer, Bolivia's Dr. Franklin Antezana Paz, to the lonely second-comer, Arturo Maschke Tornero of Chile. The two Latins warmly embraced. Latin American delegations were soon buzzing that they, as much as the war-scarred nations of Europe, expect a good slice of Bank funds for industrial development...
...billion included the $3,750,000,000 already spoken for by the British, which Congress may or may not approve and which is "a special case," not to be considered "a precedent for a loan to any other country." Other countries will apply to the Export-Import Bank, which, if Congress accepts Vinson's program, will have some $3 billion to dish...
...National Association of Broadcasters; Clarence Francis, board chairman of the General Foods Corp.; George Gallup of Young & Rubicam; Henry R. Luce, TIME Inc.; James W. Young of J. Walter Thompson Co.; Dr. William I. Myers of Cornell University; Chester C. Davis of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank; Eugene Meyer, publisher of the Washington Post; Anna Lord Strauss, president of the League of Women Voters; Mrs. La Fell Dickinson, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs; Eric Johnston, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...