Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sudan, hunting lion and buffalo. He had a bad moment when a native police patrol mistook his party for Abyssinian bandits. Alfonso stopped their fire by shouting in English. Meanwhile in London his lawyers won him ?11.000 ($55,880) worth of securities he had deposited in 1920 in the Bank of Westminster. Alfonso's eldest son, the easy-bleeding Count of Covadonga who renounced his rights to Spain's empty throne last year by marrying a Cuban girl, lay ill with influenza in Paris last week. To his bedside and to meet his wife-nurse for the first...
...poverty-stricken little colony of 250 at Bolinas. All that night the beach was bright with torches and bonfires, moving with bent shadows. Miles Pepper, 12, was the first in his family of eleven to hear what had happened. Father Pepper had just been dropped from CWA. A bank had just foreclosed on the home, beach tearoom and land which Mother Pepper had inherited from her father. While the other ten Peppers sat gloomily thinking of their misfortunes, Son Donald slipped quietly out of the house. Few minutes later he burst back, shouting that there were heaps of the stuff...
...Coclés came to light. About 30 years ago the Rio Grande de Coclé shifted its course, cut through an ancient Coclé burial ground. Five years ago some natives, poling up the river when the water was unusually low, spied something shining on the bank. They went ashore, scooped up enough shining things to buy many jars of heady chicha. Soon Harvard's Peabody Museum heard of the curiously wrought gold ornaments on sale in a Panama City antique shop. The result was the Lothrop expedition. In one grave alone, containing a score of skeletons laid...
...last three years the banks have been telling small business men that they could not conveniently make loans for longer than nine months, that it was not the business of a commercial bank to lend out for a year or more deposits which might be demanded at any timely the depositor...
...plan is to build new lending machinery upon existing facilities. Thus commercial banks would make one or two or even five-year loans but they would be allowed to get cash immediately by transferring those notes to the Federal Reserve Banks, which will have an intermediate credit division. It has not yet been determined what percentage of each loan can be transferred or rediscounted. But if a commercial bank knows that at any moment it to get 80 per cent of its funds back by depositing them with the intermediate credit division of the Federal Reserve banks all the notes...