Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason for the outbreak is the proliferation of branch banks, many of them lightly guarded, in U.S. suburbs. It is, therefore, almost inevitable that the highest number of bank holdups is in that state of sprawling suburbia-California. So far this year, there have been 103 bank robberies just in Los Angeles County, an average of two for every three banking days. The holdup men average $6,000-and receive an average seven years in jail if caught. Federal Judge Thurmond Clarke sentences two or three each week in his Los Angeles court. Some 90% of the robbers are amateurs...
...year-old man was picked up by Los Angeles police after he tried to rob two banks by threatening tellers with a baseball bat. A housewife left her two children eating candy at a bus-stop in Hermosa Beach, stuck up a Bank of America branch at toy gun point for $4,000, picked up her kids and strolled away. She was arrested down the street. Ludicrous as some of these amateurs' efforts are, they do not amuse the cops. Growls one Los Angeles veteran: "When you take loot, you've lost your amateur standing...
...Branch Roots. Over at the dethroned Post, President and Editor Oveta Gulp Hobby, Eisenhower's first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, acknowledges the existence of a "friendly" rivalry, but appears unwilling to engage the Chronicle at any level. She may have to. Editor Steven has been promised continuing editorial freedom by Chronicle President John T. Jones Jr., nephew and heir of Jesse Jones, the Chronicle's longtime publisher and F.D.R.'s Secretary of Commerce. This is the sort of invigorating climate in which Bill Steven thrives. Said he, surveying the busy Chronicle newsroom, where...
...Most Heartening." The consumer is spending once more as the economists think he should. The last reported week shows department-store sales gains for every federal reserve district in the U.S. Opening a new budget-store branch, Detroit's J. L. Hudson rang up $40,000 in the first three hours. Sales at Rich's in Atlanta, the South's biggest store, are running 8% ahead of last year's. Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward, the two biggest mail-order houses (Sears is also the world's biggest retailer), both set sales records in July...
...winter in the Southern Hemisphere-but the cold August wind caught them by surprise. Striking in the predawn light across the entire state of Parana (where most Brazilian coffee grows) and as far north as São Paulo, it wilted leaves and left September blossoms stillborn on the branch. Within hours, a lifeless swath of brown marked its path. Before retreating, the wind devastated about 60% of Brazil's coffee trees in the nation's worst freeze in a decade...