Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economic czar, Howe can grant permits for the importation of manufacturing machinery. He will be able to force Canadian branch plants of U.S. companies (there are 2,000 of them in Canada) to stop importing parts, begin making their own with Canadian raw materials. He will be able to shut any plant that does not cooperate. He will have the power to step up exploitation of Canadian resources. Gold mines, for example, will get a $7-an-ounce subsidy for every ounce they produce over their output in the twelve months ending last June 30. Coal production will be stimulated...
Police established that the girl had purchased both the gun and a box of ammunition at the Massachusetts Avenue branch of Sears Roebuck and Co. last Tuesday. Yesterday a salesman identified the girl, who is the daughter of Mrs. Dorothea C. P. Flint, house-mother of Elliot Hall, from photographs...
...Richmond, Old School Stylist James Branch Cabell, who knows a lot of words, broke his accustomed silence to inform his publishers that he was writing a new book. "I do not think that to announce the book as 'in preparation,' " wrote Cabell, bringing memories of the oldtime Cabellian vocabulary thronging, "should be regarded as hubris...
...vaudeville performer, Jackie Robinson thought, he would make a good first baseman. Explained Jackie: "I can't sing or dance." But at Harlem's Apollo Theater and Washington's Howard, Robbie picked up more money in two weeks than the $5,000 Branch Rickey paid him for seven months with the pennant-winning Brooklyn Dodgers (TIME, Sept. 22). Last week his show played Chicago's Regal Theater. It wasn't much of an act. He was onstage only eight minutes, and he neither sang nor danced-just answered, in a modest manner and a clear...
Since 1919, when it broke away from the Communist-suppressed mother church in Moscow, the largest branch of North American Orthodoxy has sadly, steadfastly maintained its autonomy. Not that there has been a lack of interest on the part of Moscow's Patriarch Alexei and his new friends in the Kremlin. In 1945, the Patriarch sent an archbishop to the U.S. with concessions aimed to bring the exiles back into the fold; but the North American hierarchy refused. Four months ago, another church dignitary arrived from Moscow in a hopeful mood. Last week he was on his way home...