Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hirtenberg. Last February the Great Powers realized for the first time what steel is in the spine of this little fellow who looks like a cross between Actor Ernest Truex and a French bull pup. Italy, busily weaving Austria and Hungary into his chain of military alliances against France and the Little Entente, had sent some 50,000 rifles and 200 machine guns to be "repaired" at the factory in Hirtenberg near Vienna where they were made (see map p. 15). France and Britain "discovered" that these arms were actually bound for Hungarian troops. They sent a sharp ultimatum...
...Columbia publicity staffs both are manned by seasoned newshawks. NBC's smart Vice President Frank Earl Mason, onetime president of Hearst's International News Service, applied wire service methods to the long distance telephone, got fast, adequate coverage of big news for his chain. Columbia went at it somewhat more elaborately, organized a system of correspondents in the 90 cities dotted by CBS stations...
...Fifth Ave., and asked to see its president, Maxwell H. Brown. Told that Mr. Brown was out they made an appointment to see him. Returning later, they were ushered into the office of a dignified, white-haired executive. Straightway they fell to questioning him, accused him of operating a chain-selling racket, collecting $2,000 a day from deluded women who sent in $1 for six pairs of silk stockings. Untycoonlike confusion came over the venerable businessman. He stammered as if with stage fright, finally broke down, confessed he was not Maxwell H. Brown but Theodore C. Packard, 65, unemployed...
...Paul, Minn, last week learned that it is to become a one-newspaper town. The Ridder Brothers. Manhattan chain publishers, got control of the only daily there that they did not already own. They operate the evening Dispatch and the morning Pioneer Press. What they bought was the slipping, 33-year-old evening News, for a reputed price...
...Ryan Jr. (cousin and brother of Fortune Peter Ryan), John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, Howard G. Gushing, Major Talbot O. Freeman, A. Newbold Morris, Walter S. Mack Jr. and other socialite young businessmen. They formed Federal Broadcasting Corp. to operate station WMCA in New York City, hoped to form a chain of eleven stations extending as far west as St. Louis. President of the company is John T. Adams, former associate of Donald Flamm, owner of the station. Object : to make a good thing out of the boom in radio advertising expected to follow Recovery...