Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Straightway the Senate ratified the Bank Fund Bill...
...Come to our villages and read the endless list of their dead and make comparisons, if you will. Was this not a 'bank account'? The loss of this vital force of youth...
...years Britons have adventured out to India and returned a-homing upon steamers bearing the triliteral device, "P. & O." Not the Bank of England is more symbolic of British fiscal solidarity than the chunky, workaday steam packets of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. "Gawd! I wisht I had a quid for every mile them 'P. & O.'s 'as steamed this year!" is an invocation not seldom heard along docks. Last week the incredible was revealed. The Directors of the P. & O. also wish that they had "a quid" (?1=$4.85) for every mile their ships...
...Bank Fund. The final fiscal reform measure for which M. Poincaré secured passage last week authorized the Bank of France to create by the purchase of foreign currencies a non-fluctuating monetary reserve for manipulation in defense of the franc. Premier Poincaré declared roundly before the Senate: "The franc has reached a point where it is much below its real value. The Bank of France bills are guaranteed in such a manner as to render unjustified the absurd present rate of the franc in international exchange...
...last year (N. Y. Trust Co.'s The Index, July, 1926). In 1924 it was $10,252,000,000, which meant 16% of the income of all the people, or $91.47 for each one, or $400 for each family [American Exchange-Pacific National Bank (Manhattan) August monthly letter...