Word: banke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bank President David Rockefeller recently told a Senate hearing on urban problems, "capital investment is needed on an immense scale-an estimated $5 of private capital for each $1 of public funds...
...Esso gasoline, he drives to an office equipped with Remington typewriters, ITT telex machines and IBM computers. While his wife runs a Hoover vacuum cleaner, a Singer sewing machine and a Sunbeam iron, he confers with his American advertising agency and stops at a branch of First National City Bank of New York. If he sneezes in the wintry damp, he pulls out a Kleenex. If his boss needles him, he calms down with a Miltown. Relaxing in the evening, he puffs an R. J. Reynolds Reyno menthol cigarette, listens to RCA, Columbia or Capitol records. At bedtime, he fastens...
When the main office of Lebanon's Intra Bank reopened last month to pay off holders of small savings accounts, hopes rose that the country's biggest bank might soon be out of the crisis that had shuttered it and slowed much of the country's business since October. Last week Intra received a new setback, this time from the courts...
...property of its directors, including that of ex-Chief Yusif Bedas, who is now in Brazil. Pending a decision on an appeal, Intra now looks to the legislature for a reprieve. A new law that is about to be introduced would, if passed, override the court decision, give the bank six months to refloat itself under new management-or be scuttled forever...
...built a water system which is one of the most important in the world. Rio had a terrible problem of water shortage and we more than doubled the capacity for water supply. Half of the cost, about 40 million dollars, was financed by the Inter-American Bank with Alliance for Progress funds. And also in our school program, which was I think, the core of my effort there. Now we have places in the public school for every child, which we didn't have before. And part of it was financed by the Alliance for Progress...