Word: branches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last month the city heard that the well might soon run dry. The Air Force had decided that the Pacific Northwest might be vulnerable to bombing in event of war with Russia, and had specified that the new B-47s must be built at Boeing's branch plant in Wichita, Kans...
...long ago as last fall, Dodger Boss Branch Rickey realized what he had in Newcombe. When the dollar-splurging Pittsburgh Pirates asked the Montrealer's price, Rickey put a half-serious $1,000,000 tag on him; that drew a short answer from Pirate General Manager H. Roy Hamey: "You keep Newcombe; I'll keep my million." Later, before the 1949 season opened, Rickey solemnly announced that Newcombe was for sale: "The price, gentlemen, is a half-million dollars, and when I say a half million I don't mean...
...fact that business on the Chicago Exchange had become flabby; a 30,000-share day looked big, although a dozen years ago 100,000-share days were not unusual. Jim Day reasoned that if the big brokerage houses could get business by having direct connections to their branch offices in scores of cities, stock exchanges in Midwest cities could do the same...
...battling moose, Wilson was drawing a pond and trees in charcoal on the curved back of an empty display case. "Half a dozen beavers are going in here," he said. "One of them will have just come out of the water, and one will be gnawing a branch-to bring out the teeth...
...prove his point, Dobbs bought an airport restaurant back home in Memphis. Before long, his reputation for tasty, packaged plane meals enabled him to branch out to airports in 21 other cities, begin catering to 16 U.S. airlines. In San Antonio this week, he opens his newest airport restaurant, serving such Dobbs delicacies as rainbow trout cooked in almond sauce, and baked potatoes kept hot in metal foil. This year Jimmy Dobbs, 55, expects his airport restaurant gross to exceed...