Word: branche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trust fund to be used to buy "statuary emblematical of the history of America." Emblem No 1 was a sturdy Icelandic Viking named Thorfinn Karlsefni; after him came a procession of American types-a Ploughman, an Immigrant, a Slave, a Miner. Finally in 1950 the city decided to branch out. Two of the sculptors asked to do works for the park: the late Sir Jacob Epstein and Jacques Lipchitz...
...earlier version of the Alcoa machine for Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, world's biggest brokerage house. The Digitronics machine takes customers' bills as they come in on magnetic tape from Merrill Lynch's International Business Machines' computer, translates them to teletype tape for sending to the 130 branch offices for collection. Bache & Co. has two converters: one sends bills, the other translates orders and office accounting data coming in on teletype into computer language. In the first year, Merrill Lynch, which paid $120,000 for the machine, saved...
...words per minute, to a central computer. The machine automatically checks itself for errors, can be started by telephone from the central office with no local operator on hand. Digitronics says that the machine is now being tested by one Government agency to relay statistics from branch offices to a central computer, and the agency estimates that the speed of the machine will save it $1,000,000 a year in communication bills...
...will move on Washington like an arrow. Already Clark Clifford, an old White House hand from the days of Truman, is at work on a what-to-do program for the transition months between election and inauguration. Plans are under way for a complete overhaul of the executive branch: Clifford has a list of 204 top jobs that would be filled by Dec. i, another 406 to be filled by Jan. 1. Clifford is working closely with the Brookings Institution on a table of organization patterned on Dwight Eisenhower's efficient White House arrangements...
Prefacing their accounts with a brief discussion of the purpose and organizational structure of AIESEC, John D. Goldman '63, co-president of the local branch explained that "the program is designed to give students interested in business careers an opportunity to observe the economic structure of a foreign country and to gain some practical business experience...