Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be built at Black Canyon on the Colorado River, 30 mi. from Las Vegas. Construction job No. 1: A $2,500,000 branch railroad from Las Vegas on the Union Pacific to the dam site. The U. P. is ready to build the first 22 miles of this track, but declines to undertake the last eight miles up back-breaking mountain grades. Construction job No. 2: A $525,000 town at the dam site to house 5,000 workmen and families. Construction job No. 3: $18,000,000 tunnels 50 ft. in diameter to divert the river's flow...
...Investigated: 1) lobbying; 2) Congressional campaign expenses; 3) Communists; 4) chain and branch banking; 5) naval aviation; 6) post office leases; 7) repeal of the 18th Amendment; 8) the Pure Food & Drug Administration...
Rumor. In anticipation of a repeal of branch-banking restrictions, two potent groups of Pittsburgh bankers were said last week to be sponging up many out-of-town banks. Through their Mellbank Corp., the Mellons were reported to be lining up at least 50 banks. Acting independently, the Hillman interests of the Peoples-Pittsburgh Trust Co. were said to have 25 banks in view...
...complications of hearing defects and their prevalence have stimulated many a doctor to become a specialist in that branch of medicine. Mentioned at last week's conference as topnotchers of their communities were Drs. Wendell C. Phillips, Arthur Baldwin Duel and Edmund Prince Fowler of Manhattan; Dr. Austin Albert Hayden, Chicago; Dr. Max Aaron Goldstein, St. Louis; Dr. Horace Newhart, Minneapolis...
Died. Major Sir Henry O'Neal Dehane Segrave, 34, British Wartime airman, world's record automobile speedster; when his motorboat, Miss England II, after establishing a new water speed record of 98.76 m. p. h. on Lake Windermere, England, struck a submerged tree branch, overturned...