Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TRANSITION also printed some modernistic musical scores, black-&-white reproductions of modern paintings and sculptures, a Mickey Mouse cartoon, the songs of the Fox Indians of Iowa, a plan for an elaborate surgical pavilion on the bank of the Suez Canal and a list of the words that crop out most often in the dreams of Editor Jolas...
...whole the British co-operatives employ about 300,000 people, sell more than $1,000,000,000 worth of goods annually. The English Co-Operative Wholesale Society, corresponding to Sweden's K. F., is the biggest distributing organization in the British Empire. It has a $700,000,000 bank, a $100,000,000 insurance company. It owns its own steamships, coal mines, olive groves, and, with the Scottish Wholesale, the world's biggest tea plantations. It is the No. i buyer of Canadian wheat, the No. 1 British miller, No. 1 shoemaker and second only to Lever Brothers...
...himself, filch code books, signal books, photographs, blueprints, plans, maps, models. He made friends easily, often took gunners and technicians out on parties. What he learned found its way to Toshio Miyazaki, who returned regular payments from his large account in San Francisco's Yokohama Specie Bank...
...George V through pneumonia (TIME, April 8, 1929) and attended him in his last hours, was created by Edward VIII last week a Viscount, the highest rank figuring this year in the King's birthday honors. Baronies went to Chairman J. B. W. Pease of Lloyd's Bank, to the Indian United Provinces' retired Governor...
...banking decision handed down by a New York court last week gave pause to eleven Manhattan banks not involved in the litigation at all. Case was the suit brought by the U. S. Comptroller of the Currency to compel the members of the New York Clearing House to make good the losses of a fallen member, Harriman National Bank & Trust Co., which went under in 1933 as a result of the finagling of Joseph Wright Harriman (TIME, May 4). According to the Comptroller, the Clearing House banks had agreed the previous year to keep Harriman National afloat. Eleven Clearing House...