Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bakeries was Cushman's Sons' branch at White Plains, N. Y., 20 mi. north of the New York City boundary. Last week Cushman's Sons mixed the bulk egg yolks with vanilla, sugar, cornstarch, milk and water to make custard filling for cream puffs and eclairs. Four thousand such pastries were sold one day to consumers in White Plains, Yonkers, Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, Ossining, Scarsdale, Tarrytown and a score other communities. Next day two thousand eaters of those cream puffs and éclairs were violently sick at their stomachs, poisoned by pus germs in the custard...
...Rosenbaum was not altogether unexpected last week. After inheriting the firm from his father about 20 years ago, Trader Rosenbaum began an ambitious program of expansion, considered himself something of an Insull in the grain business. Besides loading himself up with grain elevators, he opened a string of 15 branch offices. Lately he was reported slapping quantities of cash into Polish rye, Argentine corn and oats. Sincerely disliked by many a grain broker for his personality and methods, Manny Rosenbaum was a central figure in the Armour grain scandal of 1925. and the failure of Dean, Onativia & Co., a brokerage...
...With an M. A. from Iowa, a Ph. D. from Cornell and two years of teaching experience at Virginia State College, "Pat" Patterson settled down at Tuskegee in 1930 as veterinarian and bacteriologist. When Dr. Atkins was murdered, he stepped up to the directorship of the Agricultural Department, biggest branch of the Institute. At 34, Frederick Douglass Patterson is still a serious young bachelor, with broad shoulders, greying hair and small mustache, who rises at 6 a. m., jogs twice around the Institute's quarter-mile track before breakfast. Students frequently find him lost in newspaper comics, which...
...peace, is allowed to lapse through the maddening dalliance of British statesmen, Great Britain must assume moral responsibility for the next great war. It is a responsibility which a confused world shifted from her to Germany in 1918. The spectacle of Hitler waving at Stalin with an olive branch in his hand and a machine-gun up his sleeve, while Great Britain politely looks the other way, is proving to be no sedative for a Europe suffering from its worst case of jitters since...