Word: offshoot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Veterans Theater Workshop, which is something of an offshoot of the Harvard Dramatic Club, seems to be a business-like, serious, non-collegiate type organization. Their plans for experimental production include, pending authorization, James Jeyee's "Exiles," and other works not commonly staged...
...this 83-acre plant would be ideal for the manufacture of prefabricated houses, which were doing badly. (Production of 3,500 a month is only one-sixth of estimates.) Tucker Corp., said NHA, would have to move out so the plant could be turned over to Lustron Corp., an offshoot of the Chicago Vitreous Enamel Products Corp...
They never knew it, but Britons who used the Aldwych station in London's Underground (subway) to hide from German bombs had classical company. Workmen last week began removing some $16,000,000 worth of ancient heroes & heroines from an offshoot of the Underground station. The ancients were the British Museum's famed Elgin Marbles, plucked from the Parthenon (in 1801) by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin...
European nationalism in the mid-20th Century had reached a pitch which forced Jews to react with a desperate nationalism of their own. But between them and a Palestine refuge stood another offshoot of European chauvinism, the awakened nationalism of the Arab states and their new instrument, the Arab League. Only superficially was the current Zionist issue the same as before the war. On both sides the pressures had become many times as intense and explosive...
This global mission will come under the aegis of Evangelist Johnson's own newly formed offshoot, Youth for Christ International, which already boasts a payroll of 18 employes, including six field men whose salaries average $2,500 a year...