Word: deposited
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...have no charter, are free from either state or federal audits. The Medinas, explained County Attorney Joseph Caldwell, "reported to the Lord alone." But the family reputation was impeccable; almost all the town's merchants kept their accounts in Don Manuel's bank, and public funds on deposit amounted to $250,000. Then, a month ago, a sign went up in the bank's window announcing that the place had been shut down. The roof fell in on Zapata. A court-appointed receiver turned up to examine the bank's books, discovered only...
Eventually the town might get a new, properly insured bank-but it would be a long time before anyone in the county had much money to deposit there...
Most of the time, a New York City municipal election has all the suspense and flavor of lunch at the automat-deposit the votes and out pops another machine-tooled Democrat. But two-term Mayor Robert Ferdinand Wagner has jammed the mechanism by breaking openly with the Democratic bosses (TIME, June 30) and choosing his own running mates for a third-term attempt in November. Ever since, the city's political future has been as confusing as a subway...
After many tries, the trick dredge brought up chunks of strange, heavy rock from four miles down. Some of the surfaces were dark brown, showing that they had been exposed to the iron and manganese oxides that slowly deposit from sea water. Other surfaces were fresh and light green. Dr. John B. Hersey, chief scientist of the cruise, believes that the chunks with fresh faces were broken by the dredge out of the mysterious third layer. If so, they may show what the crust of the earth was like billions of years ago, before the infant ocean rained sediment...
...Chinese Communists' entire hard-currency reserves are believed to consist of some $300 million on deposit, largely in Soviet bloc banks-not even enough to pay the Canadians. To raise money, the Chinese Communist authorities borrowed a technique developed by the Russians in the hungry 1930s. Overseas Chinese, presenting hard currency in Hong Kong banks, can buy special coupons to send to their hungry relatives in Communist China, where gratified recipients can exchange the coupons for flour, blankets and hams. Desperate Communist officials are scouring the countryside for hoarded silver coins and old jewelry, which can be melted down...