Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paragraph I of Article IV of the Royal Decree of Dec. 21, 1927 not even II Duce himself could reduce the gold cover behind Italy's lira below 40%. Last week the purchase of war supplies had piled up at the Bank of Italy half a billion lire ($41,250,000) worth of bills on which foreign munition makers demanded prompt payment. To have sold enough lire on foreign exchange to meet these bills would have broken the market for the lira, forced its devaluation. This could be avoided by paying out half a billion in gold from...
...provides that no correspondent or news service may send dispatches out of Argentina without posting a bond of cash or federal bonds of from 5,000 pesos ($1.656) to 50,000 ($16,560) with the Bank of the Nation. This bond is to remain on deposit until three years after the bonded news purveyor has sent his last dispatch. All dispatches, whether cabled or mailed, must be signed by the bonded sender and filed in scrapbooks at the disposal of the Argentine Post Office. No dispatch will be passed or approved by an Argentine censor in advance, but the Post...
...treatments at $1.25 to $1.75 a bath, $1.50 to $2.00 a colonic irrigation, 1? a tumbler of mineral water. With the whole establishment running, Saratogans expect 25,000 visitors to take the Saratoga cure each year and spend some $5,000,000 in the city where heretofore bank accounts fattened only during the August races...
...Mount Prospect, Ill., four brash bank bandits roared up to the Mount Prospect State Bank waving a machine gun, ran toward the door, read the sign on the doorhandle, "Out to lunch," raced back to their car and roared away...
...invited him to design the first Chrysler engine. He remained to build succeeding models as chief engineer. Mr. Hutchinson, onetime auditor with Ernst & Ernst, onetime treasurer of American Writing Paper Co., performed his first big task as treasurer for Walter Chrysler in 1922 by bagging $12,000,000 in bank loans while money experts were raising their eyebrows at the company's shaky capital structure. Last March when Treasurer Hutchinson raised $25,000.000 at the phenomenally low interest rate of 2.65%, Jackson Eli Reynolds of Manhattan's First National Bank, having heard that Mr. Hutchinson's gall...