Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bank of France advances to the Government...
...rediscount rate of the New York Reserve Bank compares with the rates of the other leading central banks of the world as follows: Austria 12, Belgium 5½, Bulgaria 7, Czecho-Slovakia 6, Denmark 7, England 4, France 6, Germany 10 (cen-tenmarks) and 90 (old paper marks), Greece 7½, Hungary 18, India 7, Italy 5½, Japan 8, Holland 5, Norway 7, Poland 12, Portugal 9, Rumania 6, South Africa 6, Spain 5, Sweden 5½, Switzerland...
...struggled inside. Some time later an agitated Signora noticed that her husband had been long absent. Alarm was raised; search parties organized; all to no purpose. Deputy Giacomo Matteotti, multimillionaire Socialist, husband of the distressed Signora, was missing. It was presumed that he was the man seized on the bank of the Tiber...
...Story. When the self-important little excursion boats used to go puffing up and down the Hudson, back in the '60s, the hawkers there on used to sell descriptive pamphlets containing the item that on the river bank at Dobbs Ferry stands "the ele gant and commodious residence of Charles O. Gaar? the mansion sur rounded by 14 acres of beautifully decorated grounds and containing four bathrooms." As a result, during one battling week at boarding school, Gaar's 16-year -old son "Blacky" was "elegant" and " commodious," and a boy from Hartford made "a ribald sketch of him looped...
...engaged to pretty, fluffy, red-haired May Almy. Her mother, who has socially arrived (in contrast to Christian's mother who is still climbing, with the odds against her ever reaching the summit), is privately chagrined at the prospect of the match, though to be sure the family bank account is something of a palliative. Mr. Gaar had been secretary to her husband until the latter had mysteriously ad mitted him to partnership; and upon Mr. Almy's death Mr. Gaar, whilom Danish immigrant, had automatically become the head of the business...