Word: depositors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Depositor. In Great Falls, Mont., hospital attendants, after looking high & low for the rare type of blood needed to give Jacob Dirkes an emergency transfusion, found that the only pint available was the one that Dirkes had donated a few days before...
When the smuggling story broke in Mexico City, Beteta was unexpectedly faced with the possibility of a financial panic, touched off by a run on the Banco de Comercio. Said the pro-Communist El Popular: "Every patriotic depositor should withdraw all funds at once." Beteta' asked editors and financial writers to go easy on the bank...
Sackful of Bills. To insistent depositors, Bob sometimes handed back their cash from a sackful of $20 bills in his office. Often, he bet a restless customer $100 to $1 that he would deliver on a certain date, temporarily appeased the depositor by paying off the bet on due day. How did Bob hope to keep his bubble from bursting? Best guess was that he hoped to use his huge amount of cash to turn some super deal in land or oil speculation, pay off everybody, including...
...nation's banks used to go bust every year. Since FDIC started insuring, only 404 banks have been forced to close, and less than one-eighth of 1% of their deposits were lost. In the last five years not one FDIC-insured bank has closed, and not one depositor has lost a cent...
Left Bank. In Chattanooga, a bank ordered printed for a southpaw depositor a "lefthanded" check book, with checks on the left, stubs on the right...