Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sailors' Union for first president of the federation. Independent as Robinson Crusoe, Lundeberg cared little when his union was booted out of A. F. of L. But when his sailors voted to join C. I. O. he promptly locked the votes up in a San Francisco bank. Joining C. I. O. would have meant the subordination of Harry Lundeberg to Joseph Curran, leader of C. I. O. seamen in the East (who outnumber West Coast seamen five to one). "Yoost a sailor," Lundeberg wanted to be alone. Last spring he began to "dump" East Coast seamen from West Coast...
...Ormesby Bank, four miles from Middlesbrough at the edge of the North York Cleveland moors, months of experiment were triumphantly concluded when an Soft, steel antenna caught 70 minutes of television program transmitted from Alexandra Palace through 220 miles of fog-thickened English air. Freak bounces of ultrashort waves have been recorded: Alexandra Palace signals have been picked up as far away as South Africa. But 50 miles has been the generally accepted limit for reception of reliable pictures...
...experts still rely on their projected coaxial cables to bring television to the north of England, explain that Ormesby Bank reception was possible only because of its 700-ft. elevation, high mast, ideal atmospheric conditions. BBC can guarantee none of these reception assets to all Yorkshiremen...
...Franklin Roosevelt again sounded off on commodity prices, declared that with certain exceptions such as building materials they were again too low, should go up. This time, however, the Presidential edict seemed to have lost its magic. Despite renewed inflation in the form of desterilized gold and relaxed bank reserve requirements, commodity prices on June i reached the lowest point since 1934-130 on Moody's Index...
...Winter Palace in St. Petersburg (he never thinks of it as Leningrad), got across the Finnish border with a band of smugglers. Later in Berlin, he traded on the stock exchange, imported Czechoslovak cigaret papers, made a huge success selling Eskimo Pies. Then he went to Brooklyn and entered banking. In 1929, he started in National Safety Bank & Trust Co., rose like spring sap to vice president. Whereupon he invented the CheckMaster Plan for handling checking accounts, a system which has been sufficiently imitated for him to refer to it, with fine Slavic enthusiasm, as "the only major development...