Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daresay there's not an able-bodied girl in the U.S. who hasn't seriously thought of joining some branch of the service-only to be knocked from her patriotic pedestal by some...
Tail-wagging. The debate appeared to be over whether the tail should be allowed to wag the dog. Tweedy, twangy Elmer Davis once headed a twin-sized domestic & foreign organization. Now the Overseas Branch, headed by Robert Emmet Sherwood, 47, the lank three-time Pulitzer Playwright, has about 97% of all OWI employes. The overseas budget is $34 million; the domestic is $2½ million. As a friend and speech-doctor to Franklin Roosevelt, Sherwood has easy entry to the White House. Davis, presumably the nation's No. 1 news dispenser, is not even close. All the U.S. remembers...
...Philadelphia there is a cautious carpenter named John G. Harl. He decided to get at his income-tax return well before March 15. So he worked & worked, and finally figured that his tax would be $40. Then he went to a branch office of the Bureau of Internal Revenue and asked a clerk to check the return. No, said the clerk, after much figuring, the tax is $60.47. The careful carpenter then went to the main office, where another clerk figured: $222.38. Carpenter Harl was so alarmed that the clerk tried again, found a much happier answer. Now, said...
Grizzled, stooping, Paris sewer mason André Pierre paused in his work to test an iron grille before the mouth of a small branch drain. The bars came away in his hand. He crawled in, found his lantern shining across packets of freshly printed bank notes. André thought it wise to summon his companion, Marcel Dumesnil. The men understood at once that they had achieved the impossible, gained unchallenged entry to the burglarproof subterranean vaults of the Banque de France. Swiftly they helped themselves to 25 million francs in 1,000-franc notes...
...Cambridge branch of the American Red Cross will take over the Signet Society's building on the corner of Mt. Auburn and Dunster Streets, the Signet Associates, Inc., graduate governing board of the Society, announced last night...