Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peek, who got out of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration because he felt that the U. S. farmer would be the loser by Brain Truster Tugwell's plans for restricting production, was brought back into the Administration fold on his own terms. He agreed to head the Export-Import Bank founded to promote Russian trade. Later he was also expected to take command of two other unformed banks, one to promote trade with Cuba, the other, trade with the rest of the world...
...urge industry in its own interest to be temperate in its demands and I invite its fullest cooperation. I want to make it clear that this bank . . . has not been created for the purpose of acting as Santa Claus to hand out presents at home and abroad. Eventually, exports and imports must balance...
President Percy Hampton Johnston of Manhattan's Chemical Bank & Trust Co. gets his mind off money by collecting canes. Among his trophies on show at Macy's were sticks once carried by Charlie...
...Bourse one day last week. In a fortnight the stock had tobogganed from 500 francs per share to 260. Andre Citroen, the bald, dapper little "Ford of France," was in swift financial waters. From one excited broker to another sped reports of a general creditors' meeting at the Bank of France. Finally the Agence Economique et Financiére, the Dow, Jones & Co. of Paris, rumbled authoritatively...
...several-weeks' shutdown. A completely redesigned Citroën for 1934 entailed heavy retooling expenses and Jean Frenchman cocked a doubtful eyebrow at the new low-priced models. By last week Andre Citroën was desperate for cash. As the price of aid a group including the Bank of France and Credit Lyonnais lifted the sceptre from M. Citroën's well-manicured hands...