Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spent nine months in a German war prison, then emerged to play an active role in the Resistance (he served with the Communist-dominated Front National). Now he is France's most discussed writer: his temple, the respectably bohemian Cafe de Flore on the Left Bank. There he spends most of his writing and preaching day. Simultaneously he works on a philosophic book, a play, a novel, a host of articles...
...Korea knew the conference was discussing how to get 240,000 tons of northern coal and 1,000 tons of northern steel shipped down in exchange for the south's surplus rice; how to unify Korea's two currencies (Russian occupation rubles in the north, Japanese-issued Bank of Chosen yen in the south); how to form a provisional government from the right and left factions which had grown out of Korea's go-odd political parties...
...primary source of inflation ... is the vast accumulation of currency and bank deposits. . . . Too much of the cost of the war was financed through the creation of commercial bank credit and not enough was financed out of taxes and the savings of the public...
...Negro doctor and white Georgians was awkward at first, but Dr. Funderburg's competence has won him respect. Now 57, he shuttles busily between modest frame offices in both counties, where whites wait their turn along with Negroes. Among white people who visit him regularly are a bank official, a school teacher, several members of prominent Georgia families...
Down the Mountain. Few skiers are aware that the sober, dignified head of the nation's sixth biggest bank is the owner of North Conway's sport facilities as well as its No. 1 caper-cutter. In seven years his capers have changed North Conway from a quiet little summer resort (which went into hibernation every October) into the nation's busiest ski center...