Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many an Argentine hesitated to accept La Prensa's conclusion that Miranda was a dead duck. They had not forgotten that 18 months ago, when he swapped his job as head of the Central Bank for the chairmanship of the Economic Council, he had become stronger than ever. Perhaps he could do it again. But if half the stories circulating in Buenos Aires were true, Don Miguel was really out this time. Recent cabinet meetings, according to these stories, had become very stormy every time economic matters were discussed. Even Miranda's underlings in the Central Bank...
...famous Comité des Forges, a sort of super lobby combining all of France's steel, iron and armament firms. He sold arms to white men, black men, yellow men. When governments opposed him, he felled them by withholding credit in his capacity as a regent of the Bank of France. When newspapers opposed him, he bought them. In the French "Who's Who," he described himself simply as "Maître de Forges" (iron master...
...Rats. A project of the Chilean government's Corporación de Fomento de la Producción (Development Corporation), Huachipato will be the west coast's first completely integrated steel plant. Under construction since early 1947, the $83 million plant is being financed by Export-Import Bank loans totaling $48 million, by stock sales to Fomento and private Chilean interests, and by credits from U.S. firms (e.g., Pittsburgh's Koppers Co., Inc.), which are supplying equipment and technical know...
Twenty-five percent of the residue of his $2,000,000 estate after personal bequests will go to the College's permanent fund, according to the will which Moors drew up last February. The Second National Bank of Boston will act as trustee...
Lintner thinks that study of mistakes in past mortgage policies can forestall any impending ruin in the real estate field. When the last depression came on, he explains, bank lending policies were unwise. Heavy losses began to show up on real estate loans, and banks withdrew from the mortgage market. This was the time when risks on new loans were the smallest and the country needed willing mortgagers, Lintner explains...