Word: branches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That the packers' branch distributing agencies could, without extra cost, handle other products than meat. At present the entire cost of the branch agencies must be born by meat, which is an economic waste and increases prices to the public...
Governors of the Manhattan Stock Exchange last week gave permission for the establishment of two branch brokerage offices on ocean liners. De Saint Phalle & Co. will open offices on the French Line ships France, He de France and Paris. M. J. Meehan & Co. will locate on the Cunarder Berengaria and the U. S. liner Leviathan. Details of keeping ocean travelers in touch with market fluctuations have not been announced. Engineers of Radio Corp. of America, however, have been working on a radio ticker.. Particularly appropriate as a wireless brokerage would seem the Meehan ocean-going branches, as broker Mike...
...automobile men were planning small cars, an English automobile man was announcing the invasion of the U. S. market with a small English car. The invader was Sir Herbert Austin; the car the Austin Seven. The Austin will be manufactured at Butler, Pa., by a U. S. branch of Austin Motor...
Because the situation was delicate, Vice Consul Kao and his wife were not arrested for several days, sought temporary refuge in San Francisco's Chinatown. Then the Chinese Minister at Washington, Dr. C. C. Wu, announced Vice Consul Kao's suspension. The Kuomintang of America, branch of the potent political organization behind the Nanking government, demanded their recall to China for trial. The impression spread that certain death, from a headsman's sword cleaving into the back of her bent neck, awaited Mrs. Kao if she were deported. Although Minister Wu, taking pains to announce that decapitation was not China...
...Greenwich, Conn., a small boy fired a pistol at a bird on a branch, missed. The bullet passed through a hotel window screen, was halted by the corset of a Mrs. William O. Remsen, guest...