Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cashier First State Bank Lynnville, Iowa...
...employs several stenographers in his office. Last Saturday he noticed that a pretty one, Rebecca Bradley, aged 22, had been missing two days. He ordered an inquiry. Later in the day the village of Buda, near Austin, was agog. A pretty girl, after hanging around the Farmers' National Bank all morning, had whipped out an automatic pistol, backed the cashier and bookkeeper into the vault, grabbed $1,000 in bills and fled in her waiting coupé. That night, on identification of the bank employes, the Buda sheriff had Governor-elect Dan Moody's stenographer in custody. Public...
...Lexington, Ky., one pint of nitroglycerin stood at the mouth of an oil shaft. A dog drank it. Workmen ran for their lives. Stimulated by his draft, the loaded cur pursued a rabbit. The rabbit leaped down a bank. Jumping after it, the dog exploded...
...Bank. When Charles E. Mitchell became president of the National City Bank of Manhattan five years ago, its total resources were $821,000,000. By last June he had brought them to $1,281,494,000. National City was the largest bank in the U.S. But its capital structure (capital, surplus and undivided profits) of $115,000,000 were less than those of some British banks year will approximate 48,250,000 tons against 45,393,000 tons last year. Great Britian produced 7,797,000 tons last year, but will produce less than half that in 1926 on account...
...George V: "I was late to dinner at Buckingham Palace one night last week. Motoring home from a day's shooting in Berkshire (at the home of Lady Ward, onetime Miss Jean Whitelaw Reid of Manhattan), my chauffeur ran into a dense fog bank on the Great West Road. He tried to make a detour, but floundered hopelessly in the murk and I had to exercise patience while he groped along the grass edge of the road...