Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the shadow of skepticism, the HYRC has not ceased to set up further targets. The next step: a Radcliffe branch, under the temporary direction of Arthur W. Bingham, III '51, assistant publicity director...
Early last month John Snedaker, TIME-LIFE International's Cairo office manager, was feeling fine. As the man responsible for getting TIME branch-printed each week for distribution to 16 Middle Eastern countries, he had dispatched copies of TIME to members of the U.S. Congressional Armed Services Committee, newly arrived in Cairo from a tour of Europe. They had responded by expressing surprise and pleasure at finding the current issue of TIME awaiting them at their hotel...
...again when he peddled off the great Dizzy Dean at the height of Dizzy's fame, for $185,000 (the Cubs bought a pitcher with a bad arm). Sam Breadon sold baseball heroes as he also sold Pierce-Arrows, and the fertile Cardinal "farm system" which Vice President Branch Rickey built for him produced new-model heroes who won nine National League pennants. St. Louis thought of Sam as a skinflint horse-trader...
...work for Los Angeles' Broadway Department Store, Inc. two years ago, he intended to move cautiously; a $50,000-a-year (plus bonus) executive, he thought, ought not to seem impulsive. On his second day, he started on a leisurely tour of the company's Pasadena branch and what he saw made him jump. The floors were laid out poorly, the sales fixtures outmoded. "My God," groaned Ed Carter, "the fellows who laid out the Pasadena store are laying out the new Broadway-Crenshaw." The Crenshaw, seven miles southwest of downtown Los Angeles, was the new branch that...
National Student Association came in for two separate donations as the Council voted $600 to the international activities branch headquartered at the University and another $98 for regional dues...