Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...next day Citizen Coolidge devoted largely to business. As a New York Life Insurance Company director, he walked to that company's Los Angeles branch office, inspected its equipment, greeted its 200 employes. With District Superintendent Clark Bell he solemnly discussed the life insurance situation in Southern California...
...father, set a solitary shoemaker to work with designs of her own. Among the most expensive in Paris, her shoes were immediately successful: for a while she was manager, packer, messenger, saleswoman; soon she had two factories in France, a small mauve-and-gold shop in Paris, a wholesale branch in New York. Her sandalmakers are cheap, her sales force is on commission; with small overhead, she has been making gross sales of $150,000 a year...
...that bears his name. Now, in Seattle, the $12,000,000-a-year Frederick A. Nelson store is owned by Marshall Field & Co. The new $25,000,000 Merchandise Mart building in Chicago is Marshall Field owned, as is Chicago's Davis Department Store. Marshall Field has retail branches around Chicago, a wholesale branch in Manhattan, 25 mills and many factories scattered throughout the country. Yet it is none of these things that has been Chicago's pride, but rather the claim to being the world's largest retail business under one roof-only a claim because...
...Baker Library has recently received all of the business manuscripts of the Boston Public Library, of which it is a branch. Archivists are now working on the arrangement of these manuscripts, "which," says Professor Cole, "must be consulted by anyone anxious to become really acquainted with the business conditions of the times he is studying...
...American Airways completed the first year of its service from Miami, through Central American countries, to the Canal Zone. As everyone knows, its lines run thence down the West coast of South America to Santiago, and thence across the Andes to Buenos Aires. Another branch circles the entire Caribbean Sea. A main line wends from Miami to Trinidad down the South American East coast to Paramaribo (TIME, July...