Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compromise followed the lines of the Atomic Energy Commission, with a $20,000-a-year administrator of Cabinet rank, backed up by a bipartisan advisory board of twelve men chosen from outside the government. The administrator would have complete authority to make grants and loans (through the Export-Import Bank), would be responsible to the State Department only for mutual exchange of information...
...General Claire Chennault's commercial airline shuttled in & out, evacuating nonessential government workers, carrying sacks of flour on the trip in. Then the flour ran out. The flour planes found a substitute. To Mukden's cold and hungry soldiers last week came planeloads of almost worthless bank notes...
Bibbia roared into Church Leap with his face a few inches from the ice, steering with his body, breaking & banking with his spiked boots. For a fleeting second, he could see the white panorama of St. Moritz, and directly below-extending a sinister invitation-the village cemetery. One false move would put him in it. A few yards further, he roared into a sharp right turn, had no trouble until his skeleton sled went too high into Shuttlecock. With a desperate jerk, he brought it down. Said he afterwards: "I still had two fingers of space between the edge...
...bell clanged on the Paris Bourse and a trader cried: "Buying dollars for 314." Another trader nodded: "I sell $25,000." With this simple transaction, France last week opened its first free legal money market in dollars in eight years. There were few sellers. The Bank of France, virtually the only buyer, bought a mere $150,000 the first day. By week's end, the dollar had inched down from 314 francs to 304, slightly under the black market price...
...gave him some help. Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder last week gave in to French demands for a look at bank accounts of Frenchmen in the U.S. U.S. bankers grumbled at this violation of depositors' confidence. This would enable the French government to lay its hands on perhaps $300 to $400 million by forcing the holders to turn them in for francs...