Word: banke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bank had no actual knowledge that the Justice Department would try to block the merger until after 3 o'clock, Friday, Sept. 8, 1961, at which time the merger was already effected. The actual opinion of Justice was not seen until a still later date...
...bring Sotheby's total for the day to $2,591,400, a new record for old masters at that house. All of which led the New York Times to suggest that the art standard might soon replace the gold standard. It might not be a bad idea: every bank note could carry a Rembrandt reproduction...
...type, even dictate just how sausage is made. They navigate ships and planes, mix cakes and cement, prepare weather forecasts, check income tax returns, direct city traffic and diagnose human-and machine-ailments. They render unto Caesar by sending out the monthly bills and reading the squiggly hieroglyphics on bank checks, and unto God by counting the ballots of the world's Catholic bishops at sessions of the Ecumenical Council in St. Peter's Basilica...
...diverse as the U.S. and Red China. Glittering Vienna, which has more high-priced jewelry stores and high-calorie pastry shops than any other continental city, is a compelling advertisement for capitalism to the thousands of Eastern Europeans who visit it every year. Last week the Austrian National Bank announced that the country's gross national product jumped 10% in 1964, to $8.8 billion, and the Austrians began negotiating in Brussels for some form of alliance with the Common Market...
...occupation-and because Austria already belongs to a rival trade bloc, the European Free Trade Association. Austria depends on the Common Market for 50% of its trade (v. 18% with EFTA), and feels that its prosperity is endangered by the Market's common tariff barrier. Says Austrian National Bank President Reinhard Kamitz, a prime architect of Austria's economic revival: "As long as we do not try for full membership, we will not be violating our neutrality agreement...