Word: banke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston demonstration was part of a series that took place in New York. Detroit, San Francisco, England, and Nigeria. In New York, 500 demonstrators gathered outside the main entrance of the Chase Manhattan Bank while 44 others were arrested for blocking one of the exits. When police tried to remove them, the picketers went limp and had to be dragged away...
Over 100 exhausted demonstrators protested American supportive investment in South Africa at the First National Bank of Boston, the United Shoe Co., and Kendall Co. from noon to 5:30 p.m. yesterday...
...Researchers at the Chase Manhattan Bank have played a new inning in the old game of calculating what a wife is worth. They figure that the average housewife works a 99.6-hour week, spending among other duties 44.5 hours as a nursemaid (at $1.25 an hour), 5.9 as a laundress (at $1.90), 13.1 hours as a cook (at $2.50). Even without overtime for work beyond 40 hours, the housewife's weekly pay would come to $159.34. Paid at competitive rates, most housewives would make as much as their husbands...
...Production. This year the meeting was more important than usual: after several years of growing disenchantment, U.S. investors are again showing interest in putting money into Latin America. It is, however, money with some strings attached. Speaking candidly, George Moore, president of New York's First National City Bank, told the Latin Americans: "We support only our friends-only those who help themselves...
...pumping capital back in again, though not so fast as in the banner year of 1957. Mexico's President Diaz Ordaz recently set a new tone by declaring: "We need and welcome private capital." In the light of anti-inflation measures in Brazil, the World Bank, in which the U.S. has the greatest stake, has agreed to lend money to that country for the first time in five years...