Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calm acceptance of this kind of campaign, and their obvious weariness of the sound of political firebells in the night, were due in part to the country's prosperity. Despite inflation and record retail buying ($10 billion a month), U.S. citizens would put $12 billion in the bank in 1948 as compared with $8.8 billion last year, and $2.7 billion in 1939. Employment still stood at the 60 million mark. Materially, the U.S. was rich-richer than any nation had ever been in the history of the world...
...seemed to provide the only public expression of the libido. Historical novels were most noteworthy for their dust jackets, all of which seemed to boast a red-lipped siren with a low-cut dress and an incredibly pneumatic bust. U.S. intellectuals, who had once ranged from the Paris Left Bank to Communism's left wing, had come home to roost. It was a little saddening to the more daring spirits, but in 1948 it was difficult to want to be anything but an American...
Over the River. For three days, U.S. officials thrashed about feebly, arrested some 400 Mexicans. Then Grover C. Wilmoth, district immigration director at El Paso, opened the border. His agents hastily registered the braceros at the river bank or on the roads, and waved them along to the waiting farm trucks. Technically they had all been arrested, and paroled to work. The fanners were happy, the braceros were happy; Juárez, if not happy, was mightily relieved...
...first dream is entitled "Desire" and is the work of Max Ernst, based on his collages for "Le Semaine da Bonte." This dream belongs to a frustrated bank-clerk and seems to be centered around a bed containing a very lush brunette. He steals her away but is literally hounded by conventions of society...
Reporter, Boston Record-American; assistant television producer, World Video; seasonal park ranger, Shenandoah National Park; editorial department. American Telephone and Telegraph; editorial department, Collier's; translator, export, division of Kaiser-Frazer; and a position in the South American branch of the First National Bank of Boston...