Word: branch
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...quickly launched a counterassault. He and his co-stars would sneak out in the early hours of the morning and paste Husbands posters all over Manhattan. He organized his own preview screenings, angrily fired off lengthy letters to the chain of command and in general exhausted the entire executive branch of Columbia Pictures. Wearily, they finally backed...
Young, black and ambitious. George E. Johnson applied to a Chicago finance company in 1954 for a $250 loan to make and market a hair-straightening cream. An unimpressed loan officer called the idea "ridiculous" and turned him down. A few days later, Johnson breezed into another branch of the same company, said he wanted the money for a California vacation-and got it on the spot. With that saucy subterfuge, and an additional $250 from a friend, Johnson started what is today the country's largest publicly held, black-run manufacturing firm: Johnson Products Co., whose annual sales...
...outdo the numbers racket and pick up extra revenue with their own lotteries. New Jersey is due to follow suit. Pennsylvania uses horse-race betting to help finance both private and public schools. In January, New York City will start a computerized off-track betting service that may branch into other sports as well. Last week the country's top oddsmaker, Jimmy ("The Greek") Snyder of Las Vegas, pronounced the New York scheme "a prohibitive favorite to make money...
...What branch of the armed services was Pippi Longstocking's father...
Yoshizane Iwasa, president of the Fuji Bank, which is Japan's largest, found himself held to account for an embezzlement by a minor loan officer in a Tokyo branch. Masao Suganuma, 41, was arrested for taking $5,270,000 through phony loans. Once word got out, President Iwasa was summoned before the finance committee of Japan's Diet to explain and apologize. Last week the bank's board, of which Iwasa is a member, cut the pay of Iwasa and other officers and directors by as much as 30% for the next six months. The directors canceled...