Word: vaults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the bill represents a radical departure, it still leaves a loophole as wide as a walk-in vault. Only the banks know the identity of their depositors, so it is up to the bankers to determine how many unclaimed accounts fit the description. Sure enough, some bankers quickly insisted that very little-perhaps only $1,000,000 or so-remains. Said one: "Most of this flight capital was repatriated...
This month, some 400 years since Britain was driven from her last French possession, the island nation approaches the climax of a historic effort to vault the Channel and bind her fortunes indissolubly to those of the new, united, booming Western Europe. This decision will deeply affect Britain's relations with 724 million Commonwealth citizens. Britons who want to remember the sails of Drake and Raleigh, and the balance sheets that once followed the flag around the world, are being asked to turn their backs on what little remains of the Empire and to abandon (or so many believe...
...POLE VAULT: Marine Dave Tork and ex-Marine John Uelses, both of whom had cleared 16 ft. earlier this year, could not come near that height and failed to qualify. But California's Ron Morris, a new convert to the whippy fiber glass pole, soared over the bar at 16 ft. ¼ in. to provide the U.S. with another favorite against the Russians...
Last year when the deficit-ridden Venezuelan government slapped on tight new import curbs to protect its dwindling supply of dollars, the prospects for many a foreign firm doing business in Venezuela looked bleak indeed. The industrial giants with major markets in Venezuela could vault the new import wall easily enough by building Venezuelan plants-as Ford Motor Co. and several others have already done. But for foreign firms whose Venezuelan sales were too small to support a separate factory, another export market seemed about to go glimmering...
...influences and assume the new, always growing and changing, sometimes slightly, some-comes enormously. Three or four have one so in my time, and it is to them that one points as the real life, the creative thinking," at Harvard. They have sacked my old grad's vault with an altogether enviable lack of decorism...