Word: banke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Speak Saroya." Darting in minutes later with only a camera to shoot, Major Hallet P. Marston, 37, of Miami, hit flak so dense that it twice kicked his RF-101 photo-jet into a 90° bank. A veteran of 101 Korean reconnaissance missions and 78 photo flights over North Viet Nam, Marston reported that he had "never run into more intense, aimed fire. When I varied, the fire varied." Nor did the flak let up until the attackers ducked behind a mountain ridge on the way home-after running a 60-mile flak alley leading away from the capital...
...years Mrs. Burnice Iverson Geiger played Lady Bountiful to the little town of Sheldon, Iowa (pop. 4,251). Daughter of the president of the Sheldon National Bank, Burnice could always be counted on to help a needy family or befriend a deserving cause. It seemed as if half the folks in Sheldon could have testified to her generosity...
Unfortunately, it may already be too late for the bank to build up a solid financial basis inside of Harlem, because of its original non-Harlem supporters. The rapid growth of the bank's deposits in the first ten months after the bank's opening in December 1964--at the rate of almost a million dollars a month-- was largely due to a series of one-shot, goodwill deposits from a variety of large white businesses such as Bowery Savings Bank and the Chemical Bank of New York. As long as Freedom National wants to feel sure that these funds...
...that deposits are no longer growing at the former rate, the bank is rapidly approaching the moment of truth. In order to survive, the bank must make a public choice. It can make an all-out effort to enlist the support of the community over the protest of white depositors and board members, thus attracting a sufficiently large number of small accounts from the "man in the street" to survive. But the directors have made little effort to gain the sympathy of the masses. "When we have to read about what Freedom National is doing in the papers or hear...
...moment, Hudgins seems to be trying to avoid the choice by appealing both to some Harlemites through the churches, and to some non-Harlem business by remaining a moderate. If this strategy wins him only half-hearted support from both groups, the bank will never have a chance to show what a soundly financed Negro bank might do for Negro areas such as Harlem. The perils of fence-sitting in banking are considerably greater than almost any other kind of fence-sitting, for there is no comeback from failure