Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Michigan towns this year have had twelve successful bank robberies. Midland, Mich., fearing that her turn might come, had deputized several businessmen to bear arms against such an emergency. One morning last week two gunmen entered Midland's Chemical State Savings Bank. The bank cashier ran to the bank president's aid, and the bandits began to fire, wounded both, ran out into the street, jumped into a car. Plunk! A bullet struck the driver's arm, the car crashed. The bandits leaped out, looked around for their enemy, shot an innocent truck driver who was passing...
...bandits never saw who fired at them. At the open window of his office, above the bank, wearing his white coat, stood Dentist Frank L. Hardy with a smoking rifle in his hands. He likes to hunt deer, had scored five hits out of six shots...
...This much is true: If somebody abstains from building a house, he can use the steel thus saved for casting cannon. But it is impossible to produce one single cannon from bank notes, for bank notes are paper and a cannon consists of steel...
...There is another recipe," the Reichsbanker told the savings bankers with scorn in his tone. "It is to print bank notes, as many as are needed. Swift price increases would be the result, with wage rises lagging behind. Such 'compulsory saving' we have had before and called it inflation...
...There are actually people in Germany who believe the bank note press has lost its terror because, thanks to foreign exchange control, its consequences cannot be read in the daily dollar quotation. It is difficult to discuss such naivet...