Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alley history. He ran on to fortune and a Broadway winner's fame as a nightclub proprietor and as one of the greatest showmen of his time. As a columnist (at roughly $52,000 a year), he is currently showing impressive stamina and speed in a fiercely competitive branch of journalism. After only nine months of newspaper distribution, Columnist Billy Rose's "Pitching Horseshoes" has landed in some 145 papers with an estimated 18 million (Billy's estimate) total circulation...
...list of high salaries made public last week by the Securities & Exchange Commission, the name of Harry W. Bracy led all the rest. As a branch manager in Carbondale, Ill. (pop. 10,400) for Kroger Co. grocery chain, Bracy's pay for 1946 was $380,000, including a bonus of $355,733. Farther down on the list were his bosses: Charles M. Robertson, chairman of the board, $100,000; Joseph B. Hall, president, $72,308. Kroger Co. stated that Bracy's bonus was due in part to "his ability as a branch manager and in part to unusual...
Originally the new group had attempted to organize a local branch of the American Youth for Democracy, but College regulations forbidding control by any national or other non-Harvard activity caused creation of the new organization, which has agreed to remain completely autonomous...
...Topmost Branch. Either way, the Army still runs Brazil. Over 100,000 strong, it is the fourth-and dominant-branch of government. In the backlands, where the officer shares pre-eminence with the priest, it operates railways, civilizes the Indians. It has produced many of the country's political leaders, not excepting Communist Chief Luis Carlos Prestes, a commander in a civil war in the '20s. Last week it quelled a revolt of noncoms who would have restored ex-Dictator Vargas...
...foamed ... on every street. . . . Spring had tossed her pale green garments on every branch. . . . Long beams of sun fell across [Frank Clair's] thin white hands [which] lay on his coat, still, flaccid. . . . His eyes moved too slowly in their pits of dark shadow...