Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside the bank, two of the gentlemen (one had a submachine gun) took up posts blocking the front door. Another pair strode across the tiled floor to block a back exit. Four others herded twelve bank employees and four customers into a patio in the rear, while the gang leader and an aide went to the office of the bank's manager, Esteban Juncadella. He found him chatting with, of all people, a sub-inspector of the Bureau of Theft of the secret police...
...Open the vault and don't get nervous or we'll kill you," ordered the leader. Juncadella did as he was told. The robbers scooped up hundreds of bank notes and cleaned out the cash windows. Eight minutes after entering the bank, they walked out into the sun-baked Prado, crossed to the shady side where their cars were waiting, and drove away. It was the biggest bank robbery in Cuba's history. Total take...
...Banks. The World Bank, turning from lender to broker, got ten U.S. banks to lend four Dutch shipping firms $12,000,000 to buy cargo-passenger vessels. Henceforth, said Vice President Robert L. Garner, the World Bank will try to steer foreign loans to private institutions...
Checks. The Omaha National Bank put in circulation the first checks printed in Braille for the blind. They can be made out in fixed amounts ($5, $10, $25 and $100) and, as a special guard against forgery, are signed with thumb prints...
...recent years, on the strength of all the books written about the mutiny on the Bounty, Pitcairn had found itself an island of world-wide interest. It had $130,000 in the bank, earned by selling stamps to collectors all over the world. What should be done with the money? The islanders asked Britain's High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, lanky Sir Leslie Brian Freeston. Said he: if Pitcairn Islanders would build a school, the British would promise to keep it going in perpetuity. And to show he meant it, his office placed an ad in New Zealand...