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Word: branche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago, at Royal "suggestion," the company even agreed to move its main offices from New York to the desert, with the result that Aramco is no longer an American company with branches abroad; it is an American company with a branch in the U.S. To join Aramco today on a career basis means accepting a desert life, for an employee cannot hope to rotate from a job in a distant field to one in the home office; the home office is here. The turnover among American employees runs fairly high. Most join up in hopes of making a cushion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: Alchemy in the Desert | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

Biographies in Sound (Sun. 7 p.m., NBC). Tribute to Leo Durocher, with Laraine Day, Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Willie Mays, Branch Rickey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Apr. 4, 1955 | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

...House: ¶Approved an overhauling of the State Department's Foreign Service branch to weed out "deadwood" and to attract top-grade men. One attraction: an educational allowance for the children of Foreign Service officers stationed overseas. Cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: A Certain Nervous Look | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

Although a few distinguished books appeared in the mass of low-grade paperbacks, the new trend began $% years ago, when the famed British firm of Penguin set up a U.S. branch in Baltimore. Today Penguins are selling at the rate of 1,500,000 a year, and among the bestsellers are such titles as The Odyssey, The Canterbury Tales and Dante's Inferno. In 1953 Doubleday followed, with Anchor books. They were good to look at, with clean, modern covers, and offered (at 65? to $1.25 a volume) such fine old fare as Trevelyan's History of England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Respectable Paperbacks | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

...Monro should be very active on the committee," William A. Stewart, assistant director of the Sponsored Scholarship Service, said yesterday. "He probably knows more about the situation than any other single person." The SSS, a branch of Educational Testing Service, is administering the program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GM Patterns Awards Plans On College's | 3/22/1955 | See Source »

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