Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer prior, Mrs. Ilsley had had a young Negro chauffeur named George Crawford. For receiving stolen goods Crawford had served five years on a Virginia chain gang. About Middleburg he had been arrested for minor thefts but always released for lack of evidence. When some liquor disappeared from the Ilsley house, Mrs. Ilsley discharged...
...children, the picture goes into the family affairs of Gabriel Service (Lewis Stone), shows him to be, like most department store owners in the cinema, dignified, harassed and nepotistical. When his children seem bored with his business and times grow harsh, he decides to sell out to a chain store operator. Then his young wife (Benita Hume) leaves him, his children vouch for their interest in the store and he meets old Benton eating his lunch in a little graveyard back of Service's employes' entrance. Benton points out that the motto on one of the tombstones...
...Ungerleider Financial Corp., April 1931; 7) Iroquois Share Corp., May 1931; 8) General Empire Corp., June 1931; 9) Jackson & Curtis Investment Associates. July 1931; 10) Sterling Securities Corp., July 1931; 11) Securities-Allied Corp. (formerly Chatham Phenix Allied Corp.), August 1931; 12) Southwestern Investors, August 1931; 13) Chain Store Stocks, Inc., September 1931; 14) National Securities Investment Co., September 1931; 15) Aviation Securities Corp., December 1931; 16) American, British & Continental Corp., January 1932; 17) Atlantic Securities Corp., May 1932; 18) Federated Capital Corp., August 1932; 19) was Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. of which Atlas took command two weeks ago (TIME...
...untoward celebration." Next day at lunch time, New Yorkers thronged forth to try their beer. First problem was to find it. Most hotels and clubs were serving but elsewhere distribution was capricious. Some soft drink stands and cafeterias had it, some did not. Householders found 3.2% beer at most chain groceries, but late the first day most stocks were sold out.* On one point the entire populace seemed agreed: a bottle of 3.2% beer was about as stimulating as a box of chocolate cigars...
Author of the new feature is Ray Gross, 38, a dark, dome-browed man who worked five years for Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. and who has been inventing things for 18 years. When he managed a chain of clothing stores he got the idea for the pants-presser. While working for Goodyear, he says, he actually landed a blimp by means of a harpoon-anchor like the one which he depicts in his cartoon series. Two of his inventions are now in production: a coathanger with attached compartment to hold mothballs or perfume; a truck tailgate which lowers to receive freight...