Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American National Bank Lawton, Okla...
Despite the touted fiscal straits of Britain, news came last week that the "Big Five Banks" have opened an average of one branch bank each week for the past twelvemonth...
...Five," progressive runners-up to the sacrosanct Bank of England, are, of course, the Midland Bank, with 850 branches; Barclays Bank (richest of the "Five") with 1,000 branches; Lloyds Bank, with 1,650; the National Provincial Bank, 1,125; and the Westminster Bank, 926. The value of the premises is estimated...
Irate citizens of many a rustic four-corners have protested, in let- ters to the Times, the "Yankee-fied" methods of the Big Five Banks which have acquired and torn down numerous picturesque and ancient inns, hostels, pubs, and replaced them with modern sanitary bank premises...
...more docile citizenry, in Germany, has regarded with a kind of pride the growth of their own banks. At present the Berliner Handels, the Disconto Bank, the Dresdener Bank, the Darmstadter (Danat) Bank and the Deutsche Bank,* and to a lesser extent the Commerz & Privat Bank and the Mitteldeutsche Kredit Bank, may be said to control German industry...