Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Erie (Jersey City-Chicago-Cincinnati) and Pere Marquette (Buffalo-Detroit-Chicago) gets 24�% of the total trackage. Instead of Lackawanna, as proposed originally by the I. C. C., it is given Lehigh Valley (New York-Buffalo) which puts its system into Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station. It also gets a branch of the Lackawanna to Oswego. Other C. & O. roads: Bessemer & Lake Erie, Wheeling & Lake Erie...
...elsewhere. His mother (separated) has a job in a Pasadena department store (F. C. Nash Co.). Remembering how her son wheedled money to buy tennis rackets, she says, "Oh, my! I hate to think about it.'' Vines now earns his own rackets as clerk in the San Francisco branch of Logan & Bryan (stockbrokers). Next year he may earn more by becoming a tennis professional. A high-school student of journalism, he hopes some day to write advertising for his father's markets...
...devoid of sentiment except in one matter-that of the Bohemian Union Bank," said Director Vavrecka last week. "It was the Olmutz branch of that bank which 30 years ago extended him the loan that proved to be the turning point of his career. Till the day of his death Mr. Bat'a insisted that all the business of his huge concern should go through the little Olmutz branch bank...
...every purpose. Such an undertaking makes the Reconstruction Corp. the most gigantic banking and pawnbroking business in all history. ... It would compel the R. F. C. to deal with millions of people in terms of hundreds of thousands of small and large loans. It would require the extension of branch offices in every town and county and set up a huge bureaucracy able to dictate the welfare of millions of people. . . . The proposal is impossible of execution and huge losses and great scandals must inevitably result. . . . There will be inevitable discriminations ... the squandering of hundreds of millions of dollars...
...idea originated in London where Southern Ry. starts its trains out of Paddington Station, runs them about 40 mi. into the country. The excursionists then hike about 20 mi., meet a return train. Last winter Boston & Maine tried such trips for ski enthusiasts, running along branch lines until a good spot was found. This summer Southern Ry. (U. S.) has tried the plan. The first trip started from Cincinnati, cost $1.75. Passengers danced in a baggage car, got off at Lexington, Ky., motored to High Bridge, fed, frolicked and were brought back. The second trip was from Washington to Charlottesville...