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...abroad, arrange dollar loans for foreign companies and foreign-currency loans for U.S. firms with subsidiaries abroad. Some states, notably New York and California, also permit them to do a "retail" business with small local customers. The foreign banks often make adventuresome loans that U.S. banks turn down and fatten their reserves by accepting U.S. deposits, mostly from immigrants with sentimental ties to the old country. They also have some novel ways of attracting U.S. customers. The Manhattan branch of the Israel Discount Bank, for example, offers its own version of the Christmas Club for savings-a Chanukah Club, tied...
...pungent with eucalyptus. Their packs held only a few necessities: a knife to carve a walking stick, binoculars clinking against a canteen cup, sandwiches. By contrast, the newcomers in the party wore madras shorts, sneakers, and apprehensive faces. They carried pocketbooks, transistor radios, straw baskets with food enough to fatten all the pheasant in the heather. New and old hands alike, 85 in all, were part of California's famed Sierra Club, out for a day's hike through the mountains. Their leader, a gangling Sierra surveyor, bluntly laid down the law: no straggling behind, no getting ahead...
...adjudged insane and committed to an asylum. After 20 years she comes out on probation to join Daughter Diane Baker, who has been raised on a ranch by an aunt and uncle. Diane takes Lucy out to see where they "butcher the chickens," then shows off the pigs. "We fatten them up for the slaughter." Oh oh, slip of the tongue. Sorry. Lucy looks away. Pretty soon, by golly, a person can't carve a roast for dinner without precipitating a household crisis. Someone scissors through the family album, decapitating old snapshots. Then Lucy gets a black...
Price Fight. Though steelmen do not like to talk about it, price rises have also helped fatten their profits. Two rounds of increases, in April and September, have raised overall steel prices by about 2%. Prices are still below what they would have been had the Government permitted U.S. Steel to hold to its 31% rises 18 months ago. Still hurting over that celebrated crisis, steelmen were unsettled last week by word that the Justice Department has subpoenaed the records of major steel companies for a New York grand jury investigation into price fixing. "We're puzzled, irked, hurt...
...Braun-Menendezes own a fleet of twelve fishing and cargo ships, piers and a shipyard, and a six-plane airline called Austral with routes spanning 2,500 miles. Their 22 stores, selling everything from pins to pickup trucks, have prospered from Patagonia's oil boom; 600,000 sheep fatten on their vast ranches. In a holding company named La Josefina (after their mother), the family has impressive investments in Argentine banking, insurance and chemical companies. With all that diversity, they have prospered despite Argentina's continuing financial trouble. By family reckoning, their companies last year had sales...