Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clearance papers. Reason: stowed aboard was silver worth $4,500,000, mostly bullion belonging to the Chinese Government but some of it jewelry and silver ware donated by patriotic Chinese for the purchase of war materials. The consignment was on its way to New York's Chase National Bank. The Japanese claimed that the silver rightfully belonged to the Japanese-controlled new Chinese Government at Shanghai. Dollar Line officials, unwilling to anchor the ship indefinitely off the China coast, grudgingly unloaded the silver and clearance papers were reissued. The shipment was stored in the Chase offices at Shanghai while...
...Excess bank reserves climbed to $3,270,000,000, next-to-highest total on record. In short, the supply of money had never been so plentiful. And when bank clearings reached a 1938 peak and bank debits rose a whopping $1,000,000,000 in the last two weeks, it was clear that the public was using that money supply...
Interest on policy loans has long been a fulcrum for attacks on the investment feature of life insurance. Why, asked critics, should life insurance companies be allowed to charge 6% for lending customers' own funds back to them when open market and commercial-bank money rates range from...
...Bold, quiet Ivar Kreuger seemed to be so powerful, with his 24 match monopolies, his loans to governments totaling $400,000,000, that when he crudely forged $100,000,000 worth of Italian bonds, nobody examined them. When he committed suicide the Swedish Parliament assembled, the Bank for International Settlements met, the head of the Esthonian match monopoly killed himself, Author Marcosson, whose laudatory interview was appearing in the Satevepost, was thunderstruck...
...scrapped the constitution, ruled by decree, sent his opponents to exile, clamped down on free speech and press. When Marcosson saw Primo after Alfonso's abdication, he had no uniform, smartness, or confidence, said good-by shakily, raced to Paris where he died forgotten in a Left Bank hotel...