Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government hopes to have 730,000 tons for export, but many believe the figure will be lower. This means that millions will go hungry in other parts of Asia, and that Burma will be without its major source of income for the imports it needs. "Burma," said National Bank head U San Lin, "may be bankrupt next year...
...where U.S. Steel is traded. Cried Whitney: "I bid $205 for 25,000 shares of Steel." He moved on to other posts, cried other bids for huge blocks at the price of the last sale. Around the floor word spread that the House of Morgan and the New York banks had put a cushion under the market. The market rallied. It looked as if the Morgan "miracle" had staved off disaster. "Business," announced Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W.Mellon, "is fundamentally sound." The Cleveland Trust Co.'s Leonard P. Ayres said there had been a security panic, with...
...Women from the Stone Age to the Mink Age are acutely conscious of money. Most of their waking hours are spent in thinking about it, in planning how they can use it so that it will purchase the most and still leave them a little something for the savings bank ... or the sugar jar on the pantry shelf...
...Munroe-Langstroth steamshovels started dredging out the gook last Wednesday, when the contract began. A third will swing into action in two weeks, when it gets the necessary engine parts. After they have dug pits 11 feet down from water level and stretching out a few yards from either bank, they will fill the holes with gravel mounds 15 inches higher than present water level, as bases for the abutments...
...bogs at large for the wrecking of his hard-earned flivver by a member of their clan. He manages to destroy five cars in the process, and to do so amusingly, George Raft, a forger, cannot cash his million-dollar check since the police are after him and no bank will take a draught with his writing on it. Gary Cooper and Jack Oakie lose theirs because they like to sock sergeants (they are in the Marines...