Word: branche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...largest Navy-operated dependents' school (1,000 pupils), then go around to shop in a cut-rate hangar-sized commissary (stocking electrical appliances, rock-'n'-roll records and quick-frozen Little Bo Pizzas shipped from the U.S.), or in any of the seven handy branch stores (total 1955 sales: $4,100,000). On the way home, they can stop for Scotch or bonded bourbon ($1.20 a fifth) at a Navy-run liquor store...
...Bourboule's entrepreneurs, apparently, are thoroughly untouched by the Poujadists' complaints. They are already planning to enter Pyrame in September race meetings. If he runs well, they intend to open branch spas at the tracks at Maisons-Laffitte and Chantilly...
...attention that aging and the aged got last week at Ann Arbor, Cowdry, Stieglitz & Co. were disappointed with the conference's final results. They had hoped that the seminar on geriatric medicine would make a flat recommendation that medical schools set up professorships in geriatrics, thus help their branch of medicine to become a distinct and recognized specialty. But the dead hand of custom-plus the legitimate arguments of some experts anxious not to isolate treatment of the aged from general medicine-denied them this prize. Instead, they won a recommendation that medical schools give "more emphasis" to gerontology...
...Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America and United States Steel Homes, Inc. have joined in a project to build, furnish and arrange financing for prefabricated synagogues, day schools and community centers now needed as a result of the exodus to the suburbs. U.S. Steel, which also markets prefab churches, branch banks and homes, says a 325-seat synagogue can be erected within four days...
...Macy & Co. will open its largest branch on Aug. 22, a two-story building with 300,000 sq. ft. of selling space. Nine one-story buildings, housing no stores from Buster Brown Shoes to Woolworth's, will open in September. Underground will run an air-conditioned concourse. Outside there will be parking space for 17,000 cars. Total cost: more than $50 million...