Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...venom (Dr. Greene also uses extracts from bees, lizards and salamanders) in combination with the other ingredients of his spinal injection interrupts the nervous circulation of pain. This it does by paralyzing efferent motor nerves (which carry commands from the brain) just where they branch from the spinal cord. For lack of orders from the brain to do something, the injured part relaxes, does nothing. This gives injured local nerves opportunity to heal and to help the injured muscles which they serve, to heal also. Dr. Greene finds his anodyne an aid in the treatment of back injuries, sciatica...
During the winter opera season, Manhattan's Metropolitan, like most large opera houses, presents six or seven operas a week. Such a pace would probably be impossible to keep up in any other branch of the present-day theatre. But a well-trained operatic cast can put an opera through its tricks with very little rehearsal, often manages to do so with none at all. Schooled in a standard series of movements and gestures for each role, a good average opera singer can be fitted into a production at a moment's notice, like a spare part...
...Francisco last week lights blazed brightly all night in the building occupied by Amadeo Peter Giannini's giant Bank of America. The bank's 493 branch managers were telephoning in reports, and statisticians were preparing to issue Bank of America's six-month financial statement. Few days before, six major Los Angeles banks, pleading hard times, cut their maximum interest rates on time and savings deposits from 2% to 1½%, but Mr. Giannini swore up & down he would not cut his. "A. P." did not need to, he boasted, for Bank of America was making...
...Picked six representatives from the executive branch to sit on the temporary National Economic Committee (Monopoly Investigation) with six representatives of the legislative branch, picked last fortnight...
...Efron launched his $1-down plan, Heavyweight James J. Braddock and a large number of chorus girls allowed themselves to be photographed in the act of opening accounts. In three days, 700 people followed their example. In May 1937, across from its main Manhattan office, National Safety opened a branch devoted solely to CheckMaster accounts. By last week, when Banker Efron and other National Safety executives quietly cut into a cake to celebrate CheckMaster's third anniversary, the idea was an open-and-shut success: the base of deposit banking had been broadened considerably. Sixty-one U. S. banks...