Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Astor Library; in 1870 wealthy Bibliophile James Lenox gave $300,000 for a public library to house his own superb collection; in 1886 onetime Governor Samuel Tilden left $2,000,000 for "a free library and reading room.'' With another $5,200,000 from Andrew Carnegie for branch libraries, the Astor-Lenox-Tilden benefactions launched the New York Public Library...
...that parish. Three of the leukemia victims were attending the school when their illness began; four others were preschool tots with older brothers or sisters in the school; the eighth, though in public school, had friends in the parish school. Sister Mary reported her concern to the Illinois branch of the American Cancer Society, which notified Dr. Schwartz. Then Dr. Robert J. Hasterlik, of the Argonne Cancer Research Hospital, called in epidemiologists from the U.S. Public Health Service's Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta...
...make sure they did not miss any segment of the market, the Webbers set up Hudson's Basement Store, first in the basement of the main store, and then in the Northland and Eastland branches. Operating as a separate unit, the Basement Store, with its own lines of lower-priced merchandise, now constitutes the big store's toughest Detroit competition, even has a separate suburban branch...
...second argument, that the FCC would become a tool of the Executive branch, instead of being responsible to Congress, is advanced most strongly by the powerful Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee. Under the new program, the chairman would have power over all assignment of personnel, including commission members. According to these representatives, he could make certain that only those members whose views he shared, determined policy; and since the chairman serves at the pleasure of the President, the Chief Executive would determine policy. This argument neglects the constitutional legislative checks which have safeguarded Congress' prerogatives with respect to other regulatory...
Learn Now, Adjust Later. Begun three years ago, 3R has grown from 28 pupils to 335 in its Spartan, unpainted, concrete, one-story building north of San Francisco. Flooded with applications, it already has a new branch in Calistoga. plans another in Santa Rosa. Within seven years it expects to have 15 schools in the Bay area, is even mulling over the idea of a 3R chain of schools across the country, like motels...