Word: branche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Around cigarmaking Tampa (635 million cigars last year), vast phosphate deposits provide the U.S. with 77% of its supply. And this industry will soon become even more significant when two companies begin production of uranium as a phosphate byproduct. To supervise this, the AEC recently opened a branch office at Plant City, near the west coast...
...plan does not provide a B.S. degree in any specific branch of engineering, but the student's program will be flexible enough to allow a high degree of specialization in his final year of study...
Yesterday's statement is an intelligent piece of analysis, both of the central issue of the recent McCarthy-Stevens dispute and of the larger threat of McCarthyism in beclouding Eisenhower's basic program. The President rightly defends the independence and authority of the executive branch of the Government and criticizes the complete "disregard of fair play" which has characterized McCarthy's recent Congressional inquiries. But the effect of his statements is largely vitiated by his continual unwillingness to openly oppose the Senator and what he stands for. So cautious is Eisenhower that he persists in his two-year policy...
...community that has reared the "Spreading Chestnut Tree," Election Oak, Whitefield Elm and Rebellion Tree would not let the Washington Elm go to the dogs. As it grew old, Cambridge doctored the tree with tar and splints. In 1874, one resident wrote, "its crippled branches swathed in bandages, its scars where, after holding aloft for a century their outstretched arms, limb after limb has fallen nerveless and decayed." The molting season was on, and lasted until 1923, when a workman, while removing a dead branch, pulled down the Elm with...
...degree will not be granted in any specific branch of engineering, such as civil or electrical engineering, but a student's program will be flexible enough to allow a high degree of specialization in his final year of study...