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From his base in Frankfurt, Jürgen Ponto has done even more than Saint-Geours to advance the cause of togetherness in banking. Ponto's Dresdner Bank is Germany's second largest (after Deutsche Bank) with $13 billion in assets. It has joined seven other international banks to form Société Financière Européenne (SFE), the world's largest such group, whose partners have assets of $130 billion. Last year Dresdner Bank also linked with three European banks in the Associated Banks of Europe Corp. (ABECOR). Members' assets total...
...scheduled airline. He was issued a voucher that he was to present at the Park Lane offices in Manhattan when he wanted to return, a common practice among consolidators. The Paris-New York trip took a torturous 26 hours-partly because the flight left not from Paris but from Frankfurt, Germany, to which Ress was hauled by bus. A few days after he arrived in New York, he called at the travel agency's office and found that it was closed up, and that his voucher was worthless...
...this kindergarten political charade, a black man becomes President of the U.S. because the roof falls in -and vice versa. The incumbent, the Speaker of the House and a gaggle of dignitaries are touring Frankfurt when disaster rains down on their good gray heads. "That ceiling was 500 years old," the German ambassador defensively informs a shocked Cabinet back in Washington. The Vice President (Lew Ayres), the victim of a recent stroke, lolls in his wheelchair like an unstrung marionette and proclaims his inability to take office. The torch is passed to Douglass Oilman (James Earl Jones), President Pro Ternpore...
...July has had to work over twelve engines at New York's Kennedy Airport. Supremely conscientious about safety, Pan Am in some cases has had to transfer passengers to another of its planes or even another airline. Passengers have had to change planes lately in Teheran, Lisbon and Frankfurt...
...their wishes to professional currency dealers, who decide where to dump weak currencies, where to pick up strong ones, and at what price to buy or sell. The dealers are the real gnomes, but not many reside in Zurich. Most are found at commercial banks in London, Manhattan and Frankfurt, and some are in Tokyo, Sydney, San Francisco and Los Angeles...