Word: branche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worth $2,660,000 at the official exchange rate of 50 to $1 ) in a single swipe. Some 4,000 gold coins valued at $280,000 were smuggled to Geneva for sale by a European syndicate. There was evidence that the bank had transferred 1 billion francs to a branch 150 miles away in Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, to buy arms and pay mercenaries...
Conversation Piece. Among the nation's three largest male wigmakers are Louis Feder, Taylor Topper, and Squires for Men. All have branches or outlets across the country, and all currently boast an annual volume well in excess of $1,000,000. Says one pleased Squires manager: "It used to be not too many years ago that the woman who dyed her hair was considered 'fast.' Now hair tinting by women is perfectly acceptable, and the same is happening with regard to toupees." The company requires that all branch managers must be balding: "You have to be able...
...sure to come at Owens-Corning (1961 earnings: $14,300,000 on sales of $226,900,000), which is eager to expand its overseas operations, previously limited to minority interests in seven overseas companies. Owens-Corning's next major international move: the opening next month of a branch office in Brussels, which the company hopes will eventually grow into a wholly owned subsidiary with its own Fiberglas plant in Europe...
TIME is to be commended for allowing the world to see a branch of the church on its best behavior. It is an example of what the church should constantly be doing in order that it really meet the needs of the world, which it is committed to serve...
...trial was instigated at the insistence of Allal El Fassi, former Minister of Islamic Affairs, according to evidence the Community has obtained. El Fassi represented this conservative, orthodox branch of a group which urges discrimination against foreign elements in Morocco...