Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only three months ago, a U.S. dollar would fetch 530 French francs on the black market. Last week, the going rate was down to 330, about the same as the official exchange rate offered to tourists at any bank or hotel. This remarkable strengthening of the French franc was another indication that France's economy, fortified by ERP, was healthier than it had been at any time since...
...deep. Last week as his No. 1 assistant, publicity-conscious Louis Johnson surprised everybody by picking a publicity man: Franklin D. Roosevelt's old press secretary, Stephen T. Early. Congress had newly created the job of Under Secretary of Defense to give Johnson a workhorse general manager. (World Bank President John J. McCloy was offered the job, but turned it down.) Whatever Steve Early might lack either as an administrator or as a military mind, he certainly made up in priceless savvy about the ways of Washington...
...very willing to adopt lenient policies." But his heart was not in his terse reply; his heart was with his troops. At week's end, under able Generals Chen Yi and Lin Piao, they were prodding the Nationalists from their last footholds on the Yangtze's north bank. For the first time in the civil war, Red shells whined across the muddy river into the Nationalist southland...
...Mind. In Wichita Falls, Tex., Maude Stonecipher reported that someone had ransacked her house, made off with two bottles of vanilla extract. In Niagara Falls, N.Y., Walter Tucker told police that someone had broken into his garage, left three automobile tires and wheels worth over $50. In Brighton, Iowa, Bank Cashier L. B. Luithly reported that the man who broke into the Rubio Savings Bank took nothing more valuable than two fountain pens...
...Where had he gone? He soon answered both questions. Registered letters, mailed in Florida and stuffed with greenbacks, began arriving in New York. A Staten Island bank which had lent him money got $5,000; another got $6,000. His friends began getting money, too. FBI men learned that before leaving he had visited his parents' Staten Island cottage while they were out of town. The agents went in, found $14,975 in two envelopes, and a note, ". . . Enclosed is money . . ." Altogether, from one place and another, they recovered $76,355. Despite his expensive mode of life...