Word: war
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During the depression, Bank of America and Transamerica found the going rough. Transamerica's stock plunged from a 1929 high of 67 to 2. But A.P., always full of optimism, kept right on expanding, and thus was ready for California's war boom. In 1945, Bank of America rose to the proud position of world's largest private bank...
...Minister of Justice, started a reform program (to break up the aristocracy's large land holdings) and tried unsuccessfully to separate church and state. As Ambassador to the U.S. (1936-39), he fought for U.S. aid to Republican Spain, went into exile when Franco won the Civil War...
Died. Franz von Rintelen, 72, World War I master saboteur and head of the German spy network operating from New York; in London. Bald, dashing Prussian Captain von Rintelen came to the U.S. in 1915 with $500,000 and instructions to prevent munitions from reaching the Allies. He lost much of the money playing the stockmarket, but managed to carry out his orders: 32 Allied ships were damaged or sunk when incendiary time-bombs exploded in their holds. Responsible for a wave of dock strikes and the Black Tom explosion (and suspected of planning the sinking of the Lusitania), Rintelen...
...Banks, and how he became a remnant of his former self during the months just before his daughter's marriage, is the subject of the newest book by Edward Streeter, Manhattan banker and author of such occasional studies of U.S. types as Dere Mable (the World War I doughboy) and Daily Except Sundays (the harassed commuter). Father is one of the best of the Streeter studies: a simple-sentence, large-print piece of summer reading, as easy to absorb as sunshine...
Before the war, Gordon worked about nine months with the National Resources Planning Board on water and power resources. During the war, he was with the War Production Board, ending in 1945 as program vice-chairman. In the latter half of 1946, he was a member of the U.S. delegation on the UN Atomic Energy Commission...