Word: branches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Campbell soups (TIME, Nov. 8), I too have a daughter, Jane, who enjoys business. When she completed her school courses at Miss Chamberlain's in Boston, she went to selling motor cars for a living. She proved so excellent a saleswoman that last week the Stutz Chicago factory branch put her in their customs body department, where she will possibly earn $50,000 yearly. She also operates an antique shop; loves horses, sports...
...chemical concerns went under centralized control last week upon the formation of the Imperial Chemical Industries, a half billion dollar concern. The principal components are the Brunner Mond Co. (heavy chem-icals), British Dyestuffs Corp., Nobel industries (explosives), and United Alkali Co., each of which already predominates over its branch of the trade. Earnings of the combine will approximate $20,000,000 yearly, according to Sir Alfred Moritz Mond, chairman. One of his associates, as director, is Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Marquis of Reading, onetime Viceroy and Governor General of India...
...conducted the famous 47 Workshop, the University was considered a center for dramatic activity among the colleges. When he moved to New Haven to set up his Workshop at Yale the University Dramatic Club kept alive the interest in dramatics, and sustained the reputation of the University in this branch of the arts. The following article written by E. W. Gross '27 and R. T. Sherman '28, gives the history of the Dramatic Club, and that of its various productions...
...location picked and his plans drawn for some 40 buildings in Spanish-Moorish architecture, President Lieber decided that he wanted speedy construction. He called in. contractors, got their estimates, selected the Austin Company. This concern has branch offices throughout the country and specializes on unit construction, that is, buildings whose parts are standardized as to size and materials. This contract...
Henry Fielding is as different from Samuel Richardson as "Tom Jones" is from "Pamela". Fielding was the son of Lieutenant Edmund Fielding a descendant of the Earl of Desmond. In this connection there is a rather interesting anecdote. The Earl of Desmond belonged to a branch of the Denbigh family which until lately was supposed to be related to the Hapsburgs. To this claim is to be attributed the famous passage in Gibagg's "Autobiography," which predicts for "Tom Jones" "that esquisite picture of human manners"--a diuturnity exceeding of the House of Austria...