Word: branches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among other things, a 20-page press kit being distributed by the Mint urges bankers to "consider naming your new branch the Susan B. Anthony branch" and sponsoring poetry contests in her name. Retailers are encouraged to "schedule a Susan B. Anthony sale week," and citizens' groups, are exhorted to throw bingo or "Susan"parties using the coins as prizes. Diagrams show merchants how to reorganize their cash drawers to accommodate the coin...
...utilitarian-present Brezhnev has yet received from his American counterparts: a pair of porcelain "Doves of Peace." The sculpture, made by the New Jersey studio, Cybis, ordinarily would cost $3,500 to $4,000, but this was a special and more costly design; the turtledoves were passing an olive branch from one to the other. Brezhnev's 'return gift to Carter? A surprise, said the secretive Soviets. And so it remained as the meetings began...
Many Harvard families have purchased their books from the Harvard Bookstore for generations-the Saltonstalls '01, Lodges '02, Lamonts '03, and even Harry Elkins Widener '04. One branch sells publishers' overstock and used paperbacks, the other the latest hardcovers and high-quality paperbacks...
...pocket to take to his father. Schmidt and his wife spend every weekend possible in Hamburg. On summer holidays at their cottage on a lake in northern Germany, they are joined by their only child, Susanne, 31, an economist like her father, who works for the Deutsche Bank branch office in London...
...lost a number of classic buildings-notably Louis Sullivan's Chicago Stock Exchange-managed to save its old public library building after several attempts to replace it with a modernistic structure. The 1897 building had long been inadequate for the central library; it was reincarnated as a branch library and a cultural center, in large part through the efforts of Mrs. Richard Daley, widow of the mayor. Though its vast mosaic-lined entrance halls and twin marble staircases leave little room for a functional library, the interior has been restored in all its original quattrocento palazzo splendor...