Word: branche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Leach, one of the most constructive features of the plan is that part allowing free transferance of personnel among the services. At the present, technicians must work out the "best ICBM" or the "best war-head" for their own branch in order to keep their jobs. This leads to wasteful competition...
...Days and Nights in which a priest, the father of one of the soldiers is being described: "... he was a powerful man, and sometimes a rough one. But the father had never known hatred. He had not loved the demobilized Red Army soldier, Stepanyuk, who had opened a branch of "The Society of the Godless" in his village. He had not loved the president of the village soviet, who had wanted to close all the churches. He had not loved two or three more men, who in their turn had not loved him. But all these taken together, calling themselves...
...success of ERMA encouraged Beise to find other jobs for computers. The Bank of America's huge traveler-check and credit-card business will soon be handled entirely by optical scanners and IBM 7070 computers. Other IBM computers even check on the efficiency of the branches. Beise gets a report each month that compares the amount of business done by a branch with the number of workers employed. He is satisfied that the equipment is paying off, estimates that it saves 30% on the cost of handling checks alone...
...Baronial Branch. The fascinating tale of book collecting's great days emerges from this densely written biography by two former Rosenbach employees, and few readers will mind that the book is too long by half or that its style sometimes flutters giddily. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach was born in 1876, and sniffed book dust from childhood; his uncle Moses Polock was an early collector of Americana, and a bookseller who loved books too much to sell them. At the University of Pennsylvania young Rosenbach slighted his courses but stored up an amazing knowledge of books and their contents. While...
...early client was a rich young Philadelphian named Harry Widener, who went down with the Titanic; his collection became the nucleus of Harvard's Widener Library. The doctor's Philadelphia shop was hardly grand enough for his new trade, and he opened a New York branch in a baronial town house on Madison Avenue. His hospitality was lavish; during Prohibition he entertained guests with the best whisky procurable and, frequently, with women of the same description...