Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this Aberhart mummery so vexed the Canadian Manufacturers' Association that its Alberta branch announced that it flatly refused to accept a single prosperity certificate. Local manufacturers, wholesalers and large retailers loudly protested, but issued no such ultimatum. Small shopkeepers, many of them pious adherents of the Premier's Prophetic Bible Institute, declared they were ready to take as many velocity dollars as they could without going insolvent "to give the plan a chance." Premier Aberhart and Cabinet decided to accept part of their salaries in prosperity certificates. First Alberta community approached by the Premier to put his scheme...
...Twig, branch, and bole, each miniature tree in the Harvard Forest display was built up of strand upon strand of fine copper wire, then soldered and painted. Microscopic details like vines, pine needles and cones were etched out of paper-thin sheets of copper picked up with a magnet. Dentists' picks and scrapers were used for modeling tools. Making rocks was the most fun. A double fistful of whiting and glue was allowed to harden, then hurled full force against the studio wall. The fragments, painted in oils and dusted with dry color, were rocks...
...catalogs do not go direct from printing plant to consumer, but to branch offices, of which Sears has ten, Ward eleven. There they are mailed out to old customers, new ones who ask for them...
Different editions with different prices are printed for each branch. Shoes, for example, cost more in Chicago than in Boston, overalls more in San Francisco than in Atlanta...
...improve their status. Dr. Miner, their new president, who is both Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Medical Dentistry, told them: "Not until diagnosis becomes the foundation on which the whole structure of dentistry is built can it lay claim to be a learned profession or an important branch of the great art and science of healing." As tooth-menders, most dentists realize that they are little more than unrespected artisans working on the fringe of health. As preventers of dental disease, they run the risk of becoming doctors' handymen, in a class with physiotherapists, roentgenologists, pathologists and urinoscopists...