Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Golden, Colo., suicidal Edward Madden climbed a tree, tied a rope to a branch, fastened the other end around his neck, and jumped. The rope broke, Edward Madden staggered away in a daze, died of a fractured skull when his head struck a boulder...
Harris said, "This course will analyze the rapid dislocation of economic variables that occur in war times, and during the transition to peace. War economics is a branch of economics like Industrial Organization or Money and Banking, giving the department a chance to use Economics in the treatment of problems that face the world today...
Kollsman Instrument Co. employed more than 400 men in its Elmhurst, N. Y. plant and its Glendale, Calif, branch factory, acquired a one-year backlog of instrument orders for outfitting new planes, received royalties on Kollsman's 200 patents. But no outsider really knew what it was worth until last week, when Paul Kollsman sold out to Square D Co. (maker of electric switches and control equipment, particularly an automatic circuit breaker cheap enough to be used in houses in place of fuse boxes...
Last week Dr. Armstrong officially opened a new branch of medical science with a weighty tome, Aviation Medicine
Died. Frederick Abbot Stokes, 82, founder (1881) and president (since 1890) of Frederick A. Stokes Co. (book publishers); after long illness; in Manhattan. Some of the authors his firm introduced: James Branch Cabell, Louis Bromfield, Percival Christopher Wren...