Word: branche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elliott, 62, advanced from senior vice president to president and chief executive officer of Crane Co.. one of the top U.S. makers of bathroom fixtures, to succeed John L. Holloway, who resigned because of poor health. Elliott joined Crane 33 years ago in Los Angeles, moved up to branch manager, to Western district manager, to vice president for all sales. President Elliott's first objective: halt Crane's three-year decline in sales and profits (1954 net: $5,800,000 v. $8,700,000 in 1953, $16,200,000 in 1951). To do this, he hopes...
...magazine Jet Propulsion, Major David G. Simons, chief of the Air Force Medical Corps Space Biology Branch, gives the most authoritative estimate to date. His conclusion: G-free man will doubtless experience a nerve-racking dis location that results in space-sickness, but can probably learn to cope with...
...emphasis on both General Education and the Humanities, the Music Department is faced with the difficult problem of how to fulfill is responsibility to both. It must, on the one hand, retain a certain minimum degree of intensity for the concentrator in what is by nature a highly technical branch of Humanities. On the other, as one of the most popular fields for the generally-educated, it must be nontechnical and historical enough for the non-concentrator...
...posts are closely related, since over half of the "special students," those not under any particular branch of the University, are generally foreign students. As counsellor of foreign students, Miles acts as liaison between the students and the government, to be sure they comply with such regulations as visa and alien job laws...
...book leaves no doubt that, after its dismal beginning, the WAC came to be an established and respected branch of the Army. General Douglas MacArthur described the WACs in his command as "my best soldiers." Still another tribute came when the Army Ground Forces command, long the bitter opponent of the women's service, took the lead in urging that the WAC ought to be a permanent part of the Army...