Word: branching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japanese had rebuilt their country so fast that they had been able to send $1.2 billion worth of investments overseas (including a Bank of Tokyo branch in Los Angeles), and had become a creditor instead of a debtor nation for the first time in history...
...Missouri's Democratic entry, Stuart Symington, got some loud huzzahs from Kansas City, where the official "Symington for President" club launched its national campaign. A branch will open in Jefferson City next week, and his backers are working to see that the movement will then spread out nationally. In Columbia, 600 students from the University of Missouri, Christian and Stephens Colleges formed the first "Youth for Symington" club, planned to spread the word when they scatter to their homes in 28 states during the Christmas holidays...
...BRANCH BANKING GROWTH in California has forced famed old Wells Fargo Bank (13 branches) to merge with the bigger American Trust Co. (102 branches). Wells Fargo-American Trust Co. will be eleventh biggest bank in U.S., with deposits of $2.3 billion...
Since a service's hardware affects the role it wins in strategy and gives it the backing of a powerful segment of industry, no branch willingly gives up a promising weapon in favor of a similar one developed by a competitor. The Army's attempt to hold a place in space resulted in the Pentagon compromise to manufacture both the Jupiter (Army) and Thor (Air Force) intermediate-range ballistic-missile systems. Today's snowballing result is a duplication in production facilities, costly ground-handling equipment and training, as Jupiters are being installed in Italy and Turkey while...
...Widener study, where he is currently doing research on American foreign policy from Wilson to Roosevelt. His book, to be published next Spring, will serve as the introduction to a ten-year study of Franco-American relations. As director of the center for study of international relations, a branch of the Foundation Nationale des Sciences Politiques of the University of Paris, Duroselle is directing the research for this project...