Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There have been so many criticisms of the Army's waste of materiel and bungling in general. But there is one branch of the Army which has received very little publicity and which has done "a wonderful job . . . the Army Emergency Relief. I know from my own experience that the A.E.R. is most generous about lending money or giving it outright where the soldier or his family is unable to repay a loan. . . . With us it was a question of allotment checks being six months behind schedule. I know that the A.E.R. has helped hundreds of service families...
...Dodgers' Branch Rickey, who spends slowly and talks fast, will miss Olmo, who batted .313 last year. Jorge Pasquel "liberated" Olmo from Rickey for $40,000 for three years...
...comes by this small-townish, unstarlike domesticity without trying too hard. As a child she was badly injured by a falling tree branch, remained an invalid for about a year. She had to wear a corrective brace, was forced to become more or less stay-at-home and introspective. But at 14 she was well and worldly-wise enough to apply for a job in the chorus of the Broadway musical Sing Out the News, and pretty enough to get it. Singing and dancing for a couple of months, she returned to high school to graduate with high marks, went...
...Yale & Towne had no union for three-quarters of a century. When the C.I.O. suddenly appeared on the scene, the company fought back in righteous outrage-and with methods which brought down the censure of a federal court. It abandoned production in one branch after a sitdown strike. It sponsored a company union which the International Association of Machinists roundly defeated in a 1942 plant election...
...battle has progressed far beyond Hollywood. Both studios have sent secret missions to Washington, both have consulted with famed atom-expert Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer. Each has enough "technical advisers" to set up a Hollywood branch of the Nuclear Physicists' Club, although there is little new which the scientists can disclose. Tension has mounted: customers at Mike Romanoff's posh eatery now talk in whispers instead of in the regulation Hollywood yell. Dark diplomacy is hinted...