Word: branch
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...depot; no freight has been moved out since a local coal mine shut down a year or so ago. Catoosa is not even on the Arkansas, which passes 15 miles away at Tulsa. But the river at Tulsa is so impossible that engineers threw up their hands, decided to branch off the Arkansas and dredge their channel up the Verdigris River, a tributary, to Catoosa. Things are already looking up for Catoosa: North American Aviation has bought several hundred acres for a possible plant site...
...fact was that Nkrumah could no longer trust anybody. When the Assembly last month voted to make him President for life, his foes apparently decided that bombs were now the only effective form of protest. Nkrumah's special branch cops combed government offices, frisked members of Parliament for arms outside the Assembly building. Even the troops he had called in to guard the city were suspect. The bombs used in recent weeks. his police discovered, were of the type stocked by the Ghanaian army...
Gold for Ballast. Saxon's wall shaker was a proposal to allow national banks to set up branches within 25 miles of their home offices, though laws in 34 states expressly restrict or prohibit branch banking, even by nationally chartered banks. Left at a competitive disadvantage, most bankers fear, state-chartered banks would immediately shift to national charters, and soon only a single, nationally supervised banking system would survive. This, they argue, would destroy the cherished "dual system" of banking, with its checks and balances against heavy-handed regulation. Saxon's argument: branching restrictions merely protect well-entrenched...
...opposite side of the spectrum, Robert V. Hohon, Secretary of the local branch Young Americans for Freedom, said his group "did better than last year but not as well as we had hoped...
...apparent that the scientists who advised the executive branch on this matter were those associated with the military, that is, with the very men who originated the idea. Such advice can hardly be considered disinterested; indeed, Secretary General U Thant in a speech made before the explosion spoke of the many scientists who condemned the test as men "with no axe to grind." The implication was obvious...