Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surprise, Surprise . . . One day last week she knocked down a .22 calibre rifle she had bought in a pawnshop, put it in a suitcase, took all the money she had in the world ($85) out of the bank, and booked a room for three days at the expensive Edgewater Beach Hotel, where the Phillies and Eddie were staying. She told a girl friend mysteriously that by the following night the girl would have all kinds of exciting things to talk about. The next afternoon she and another girl friend saw most of a game in which the Phils beat...
...cancer. Skin cancer, for instance, can nearly always be removed so completely that it does not recur. Other accessible cancers can be dealt with too, and surgical methods are improving constantly. A recent advance saves many patients who have a vital artery that has been attacked. An "artery bank" supplied from such sources as amputation cases makes it possible for the surgeon to replace a cancerous artery almost as if he were a plumber replacing a rusted pipe...
...than hairy like its own parents. It stood about 3 ft. high and weighed more than 200 lbs. One day, some 15,000 years ago, something happened to the baby mammoth. It may have stumbled into a bog or into quicksand, and been unable to get out. Perhaps the bank of a prehistoric river caved in on it. It sank down into the cold, Pleistocene mud, which kept out the air and preserved the body. With the coming of winter, the mammoth was frozen solid; the river kept on dropping silt. Moss and peat kept the body insulated...
...small, green-carpeted room of San Francisco's Bank of America, one of the biggest sugar deals in West Coast history was quietly sealed. Last week, for $5,250,000, husky, handsome Charles Edouard de Bretteville, 36, and associates announced that they had picked up the choicest pieces of the disintegrating J.D. & A.B. Spreckels companies, a sprawling empire founded by bearded Claus Spreckels in 1863, which once held some 50 companies worth $60 million...
...succeed the late A. P. Giannini on the 25-member board of directors of his Bank of America, the directors last week picked slim, dark-eyed, olive-skinned Mrs. Claire Giannini Hoffman, 44, A.P.'s only daughter, longtime confidante and an executor of his $480,000 estate...