Word: ripened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...banker narrow his eyes. Its chief victims were Chase National Bank, Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Mercantile-Commerce Bank (St. Louis). For over two years they had been nursing a deal with the State of Arkansas for the marketing of $136,330,557 of bonds. But when it began to ripen, the bankers got worried, went to Friend Jesse and asked him to take $46,000,000 of the issue off their hands. Jones's answer: fine...