Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Montreal's teeming Hochelaga tenement district last week, five moppets played cops & robbers in an alley behind a branch of the Banque Canadienne Nationale. Suddenly a man with a gun in his hand came tearing out of the bank, pursued by a yelling clerk. This was the real thing...
Enlistments, too, were sure to drop. In the past year, 90% had been teen-agers who signed up to beat the draft and get a better deal (choice of branch and choice of theater in which to serve). With the immunity granted them by the amended law, the boys' incentive to volunteer was gone. So, in effect, was the draft. By year's end, the Army estimated, it would be losing 55,000 men a month by discharge, receiving only 25,000 replacements...
...pale yellow rings, exuding small drops of a yellow, poisonous fluid. Wherever this poison touches the bark, black or dark red scars appear. The following year these scars develop into new, white blisters, crammed with spores which the wind carries away for further propagation. The canker grows until the branch, and eventually the tree, sickens and dies...
...from the wreck as possible." First reports that the decree might cost as much as 80% of their business appeared to be exaggerated. They could probably still make good money if they submitted to orders. The U.S.-owned National City Bank and "Boston Bank" (as Argentines call the Argentine branch of Boston's First National) prepared to get along with Perón on his terms. Said the Boston Bank's Vice President W. Latimer Gray: "We've been in business 30 years there, and expect to stay at least 30 more...
Juniors elected include: Richard T. Gill '48, of Long Branch, N.J. and Adams House; Kurt J. Isselbacher '48 of Portsmouth, N.H. and Lowell House; and Leonard Laster '48, of New York City and Lowell House...