Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great crisis in this country. . . . The women have a big part to play if we are coming through successfully. . . . Many of us are afraid because we have lost pleasant things which we have always had, but the women who came over in the Mayflower did not have them, . . . No chain is stronger than its weakest link and it is well for the women . . . to realize that the time has come when drones are no longer tolerated...
...apart in cities over 1,000,000 pop.) and not less than 200 ft. from any church or school. Nothing but liquor may be sold in the space set aside for that purpose. No one dealer or company may have more than one retail licence (thus ruling out chain stores). No one otherwise interested in the liquor business may have a retail licence and no signs may be displayed in the store advertising any brand of liquor. Four price lists must be displayed...
...course after six hours the Monsoon picked up the floating airdrome in the middle of the Atlantic. Unlike an aircraft carrier, or a huge mid-ocean landing field such as the U. S. Public Works Administration has been asked to finance (at $30,000,000 for a chain of five between the U. S. and Europe),† the Westphalen is too small to allow planes to land on her deck. If the water is smooth it is a simple matter for the Westphalen-or any surface ship-to hoist a flying boat aboard. In rough weather this is dangerous...
...President Roosevelt's side to edit, with Vincent Astor's money behind him and Journalist V. V. McNitt's experience behind them both. "Chiselers In Action" shouted a red headband and in the cover cartoon a rotund Andrew Mellon wearing J. P. Morgan's watch-chain chopped a hole in the side of the dory S. S. Recovery, apparently preferring the Rugged Individualism life preserver around his neck to the NRA sail bellying nobly from the mast...
There was one English boat which "Tom" Sopwith could not come anywhere near beating. She was Velsheda, built for Chain-store Tycoon W. L. Stephenson by Charles E. Nicholson who designed the Shamrocks. Velsheda was rigged according to the new international rules which provide that racing craft may have light duralumin masts but must have full cabin accommodations for owners and crew, and must have gear-handling equipment on deck (not below deck as on Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's sleek Cup-winner Enterprise). Mr. Sopwith commissioned Designer Nicholson to build him a yacht even faster than Velsheda. He will...