Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last known really big outpouring of "Moscow gold" in the English-speaking world was when $2,000,000 was openly transmitted from the Industrial Bank of the U. S. S. R. via Lloyds' and other British banks to leaders of the British General Strike-most of whom were not even Communists, an excruciating pain to the devoted. They watched beefy British Labor leaders who took the money, who were interviewed by London papers as exclaiming "Thank God for Moscow!", and who then gave up the General Strike with about as much mealy-mouthed reluctance as served Britain to give...
...month-old Evening News (TIME, Aug. 1) made even better progress in breaking the monopoly inherited by Publisher Frank Gannett when Hearst withdrew in 1937. Although the News was not expected to break even until Christmas, last week it was reported to have $6,000 of profits in the bank...
...Reserve Board estimated that October industrial production was 95% of the 1923-25 average (76% six months ago). Electrical output set a 1938 high. Automobile production for the week was 86,300 units, 6.270 more than the preceding week and 2,975 more than 1937's comparable week. Bank debits to individual accounts again showed a substantial increase and total money in circulation was at the highest level since the bank holiday...
...frustration" tests used last year involved the use of a savings bank. For three days the trusting subject was given a quarter in payment for drawing a picture, a quarter which was to be deposited in the bank. On the fourth day a key was substituted for the quarter, but when the child opened the bank with it, the other three quarters had gone...
...Galveston, Texas, G. Martini, assistant manager of a cinema theatre, was on his way to deposit the day's box-office receipts of You Can't Take It With You. In the lobby of the bank a bandit held up Manager Martini, took it with...