[PW] Re: ?Atlas Shrugged quotation

[Shari Haber]

Lesley-

Not the answer, but for what it's worth, the character that is most 
likely to be involved in that scene would be the banker, Eugene Lawson.

Shari Haber
MCLS Reference Center
shaber at mcls.org

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From: "Williams, Lesley A." <lawilliams at cityofevanston.org>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 9:30 AM
Subject: [PW] ?Atlas Shrugged quotation


> We have a patron who is looking for a passage in Ayn Rand's _Atlas 
> Shrugged_ that deals with banking. The patron says it describes how 
> banks lend money to each other overnight because they are required to 
> maintain a certain amount of ready cash in house. I'm not familiar 
> with the book, but I skimmed it while reading the chapter summaries 
> from Sparknotes.com. Didn't find it, although I saw some passages in 
> which the banker character, Midas Mulligan, complains about being 
> forced to make a loan to an incompetent businessman named Hunsacker.
>
> I also looked at the website for the Objectivist Center and Google 
> BookSearch, but to no avail. Any ideas?
>
> Lesley Williams
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