Word: offshoot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fundamentalist offshoot of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Another offshoot: The Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Difference: Bible Presbyterians ban all liquor; Orthodox Presbyterians permit beer and wine...
...reaching cut in airline passenger fares was announced jointly this week by giant amphibious Pan American Airways and its scrappy, up-&-coming offshoot, Pan American-Grace Airways. The cuts average 10%, affect all flights between the U.S. and Latin America, will save 500,000-odd Pan Am-Panagra customers $1,250,000 yearly. Sample cuts: Miami to Buenos Aires $550 to $495; Miami-Lima $354 to $320; Miami-Bogota $213 to $183. The new rates will become effective whenever the airlines get CAB approval (probably two months...
...banking firm of J. Henry Schroder & Co.) was not hard to answer. For under terms of the plan American individuals (not Schroder Rockefeller) would boss TACA. Another objection had more substance: Yerex would still own all of British West Indian Airways and one-third of TACA's Brazilian offshoot...
...last week. Two U.S. Protestant churches, each the result of a successful merger last decade, announced they had taken the first step toward merger. One is the Congregational Christian Churches (1,049,575 members), which in 1931 united the descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers of 1620 with a Methodist offshoot founded in North Carolina in 1793. The other is the Evangelical and Reformed Church (685,571 members), formed in 1934 by combining the Evangelical Synod (a Midwestern fusion of Lutheran and Calvinistic thought, not to be confused with the Evangelical Church, which is Methodistic) and the Reformed Church...
...Acting as the Socialist Workers Party, a wizened little offshoot of the Communists...