Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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American business ethics in general are scarcely a subject for national pride, but advertising is probably the only branch of industry in which it has been shamelessly acknowledged that honesty is not the best policy. Any encouragement of sincerity and reliability in advertising has been greatly needed, and it is regrettable that the Bok Awards made by the Harvard Business School are to be discontinued...
...General in London, in Paris, in Shanghai, or Buenos Aires. On the other hand, special talent for drafting, tact in negotiation and just estimation of political situations would be recognized by work on international conferences and the positions of Counselor of Charge d'Affaires in great capitals. From either branch the President may select Ministers and Ambassadors, and there are at present some thirty who have been so chosen...
...supply (TIME, April 27). By the same decree Arena (pop. 216), Dunraven (pop. 104), Union Grove (pop. 204), Shavertown (pop. 219), Pepacton (pop. 27) and pos-sibly Downsville (pop. 532) will be blotted out of existence by a great new reservoir which will rise over them when the East Branch of the Delaware* is dammed...
...Before it may build dams for diversion it must erect plants at Port Jervis to purify sewage and eliminate industrial waste pouring into the Delaware. Also if the river drops below a specified level at Trenton, New York must release a part of its impounded supply. On the East Branch will be constructed an $18,700,000 dam from which a tunnel big enough to drive an automobile in will be blasted 22 mi. through solid mountain rock to link with the present Catskill system. Another $7,200,000 reservoir will be made on the Neversink River. Total cost...
...arrive Los Angeles 11:30 p.m., San Francisco 3:30 a.m., Seattle n a.m. The season's opening was also marked by the climax of a sharp fight between Western Union and Postal Telegraph Co. for the exclusive rights to sell airline tickets at their branch offices. Last week Western Union had made contracts with 18 airlines, to Postal's ten. But Postal's list represented 57,000 mi. of airway to Western Union...