Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the past decade there has been one trend in U. S. banking more pronounced than all others combined: the trend to merge, to branch, to group, all of which is essentially one trend, and all of which is exactly and naturally parallel to the developments in U. S. industry, commerce, society (FORTUNE, February). But Federal laws have opposed this trend and so, verbally...
...Extension Course at their meeting at the Boston Public Library, next Wednesday evening, at 8 o'clock, will hear Dr. Manley O. Hudson, Bemis professor of international law at Harvard Law, who will speak on "America's Share in World Organization." He is speaking under auspices of the Massachusetts Branch of the League of Nations Association, headquarters 40 Mt. Vernon Street...
...into the American Telephone & Telegraph fold, will be operated as a subsidiary of Western Electric. Chicago Teletype manufactures printing telegraph equipment which transmits typewritten messages automatically and instantaneously between distant offices, enabling telegraph users to send their own "wires" directly, also to receive telegrams and messages from Teletype-equipped branch offices. (TIME uses such an instrument between editorial office in Manhattan and proof room in Chicago.) While both Western Union and Postal Telegraph & Cable have been increasingly large Teletype customers, the Bell System has more than 10,000 in use, many for its own system, many over leased wires. Another...
...angels float down from the sky; an old witch ride madly astride her broomstick, pausing only to tickle the nose of a raggedy boy waiting to be fattened and baked into gingerbread. The climax came when his yellow-haired sister saved him with the wave of a magic juniper-branch and a hocus-pocus formula, when together they pushed the witch into the oven stoked for them. For children no moment of the performance approaches this supreme one in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel...
Gasoline Telegraph. Postal Telegraph & Cable's 7,000 branch offices last week became 10,500. The new ones were filling stations of Standard Oil of New Jersey, Colonial Beacon Oil, Standard Oil of Indiana, Standard Oil of Pennsylvania, Standard Oil of California, Standard Oil of Louisiana, Standard Oil of Ohio, Standard Oil of Nebraska, Utah Oil Refining Co. Under the terms of the agreement, the stations will display Postal signs, attendants will furnish blanks. They will carry the blanks out to motorists sitting in their cars at the pump, if desired, and immediately telephone their messages to the nearest...