Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime in Chicago that same day an oldster from the other branch of the Service was reviving a part of its past which the Army would like to forget. In 1897 Captain Oberlin Montgomery Carter of the Corps of Engineers was on the upswing of what promised to be an exceptionally brilliant career. Graduated from West Point with one of the most brilliant records in Academy history, he had eight years later been put in charge of important harbor improvements at Savannah. To professional distinction he added the social prestige of marriage to the daughter of a rich onetime business...
...illustrator in college, then starved in New York. Gloria turned to him when she was in trouble, which was most of the time, lied to him about her dissipations, confided in him, but Eddie, unlike a great many others, had never been her lover. To Weston Liggett. branch manager of a tool manufacturing company, father of two daughters and husband of an unloved Boston girl. Gloria was one of a succession of casual and some-times painful affairs. Increasingly attracted to her. he never understood her, was shocked at her theft. When (hey quarreled about it in a speakeasy Weston...
...some 650 miles it sped across the Gulf of Siam to Saigon in French Indo-China, then 350 miles on to Tourane, finally another 550 miles straight across the South China Sea to Hong Kong. Thus, in the first of six trial flights, Imperial Airways Ltd. sprouted a new branch from its main stem between London and Australia. Carrying passengers and mail, the new service will run twice a week, is significant because it brings the trans-Asian airline within 80 miles of Macao, now planned as the terminus of Pan American Airways transpacific route...
...have just returned home from viewing the sixth issue of "The March of TIME " . . The sequence concerning the bootlegging of coal in the rugged hills of Pennsylvania was good likewise the scenes concerning Ethiopia, the east branch of the Nile, and Italy's Il Duce were brilliant, but it is the story of the CCC camps which I wish to commend the editors of ''The March of TIME...
...lecture, to which admission will be free, is given under the auspices of the Harvard Grenfell Association, a branch of the Mission Committee of the Phillips Brooks House...