Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week they had occupied 28 of the 50 provinces of Spain. Although everywhere outnumbered hundreds to one by the Spanish proletariat, they had not up to this week been ousted by popular uprising from any important area which they have occupied. Of the 68 branches of the Bank of Spain, 38 were under regular White administration, and the German Government, in extending diplomatic recognition, confirmed so far as the Reichsbank is concerned the regulation of Generalissimo Franco that a Spanish bank-note is worthless unless it bears his Fascist stamp...
...Chicago's 1893 Fair. In Chicago he designed or helped design the Field Museum, Union Station, Merchandise Mart ("world's largest building"), Marshall Field department store, Civic Opera and Wrigley Buildings; in Manhattan, Wanamaker's and Gimbel's stores, the Flatiron, Equitable and Chase National Bank Buildings; for Washington, the Union Station and General Post Office; California's Mount Wilson Observatory...
James Willison Smith, president of the Land Title Bank & Trust Co., a member of the General Council of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. Said he: "I cannot understand...
...much effect, a dollar of gold supporting at least $10 worth of credit. U. S. gold stocks are already at the incredible figure of $11,100,000,000, over one-half the world's monetary supply. To sterilize some of this potential credit the Federal Reserve Board upped bank reserve requirements last August, a move which reduced excess bank reserves from about $3,000,000,000 to $1,800,000,000. Since that date, however, nearly $450,000,000 worth of gold has been landed in the U. S., and excess reserves have mounted approximately the same amount...
...west bank of the broad estuary of the Kennebec River is Bath, Me., "City of Ships." There in 1607 was launched the first ship built in North America. There Jonathan Philbrook gained immortality by building the first schooner. There for more than a century was the centre of the U. S. shipbuilding industry. But in Bath today there is only one active shipyard-the famed Bath Iron Works. Hitherto a tightly-held little company, Bath Iron Works last week became a publicly-owned corporation. A banking group headed by Manhattan's Hemphill, Noyes & Co. offered 50,000 shares...