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Word: chain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advertised products and that if babies cry for Fletcher's Castoria they will get it regardless of who owns the corner drugstore. And Drug could make good use of cash to buy in its own bonds at 65? on $1 and to tide over its money-losing Liggett chain of drugstores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Boots | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

...several months both State and Federal authorities have been digging into the long chain of manipulation which led to the insurance company's fall. Loans of $3,446,000 to the Stevens family & friends, use of dummies, frenzied finance were rooted out of the books. Neatest Stevens trick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Illinois & Stevens | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

...very tiny drop indeed in Mr. Rockefeller's bucket of show business holdings. Recently the Rockefellers acquired 100,000 shares of R-K-O securities "as a result of rental adjustments" at Radio City. Mr. Rockefeller is also the handle on a whip whose popper is another entertainment chain. He is reputed one of the largest stockholders in Chase National Bank. Chase National is the banking sponsor of General Theatres Equipment Corp. (in receivership), which controls Fox Film Corp. with which is affiliated Film Securities Corp. which controls Loew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Bread & Circuses | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

Sued. Warner Brothers Pictures Inc. and Vitaphone Corp.; by J. Harold Hardy, Georgia chain gang warden; for $1,000,000 each for "vicious, untrue and false attacks" in Warner's film / Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, cinematized from Fugitive Robert Elliott Burns's book (TIME, Jan. 2); in Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 16, 1933 | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

United Cigar Stores, Schulte, Liggett and other chain organizations promptly passed on part of the cut to consumers, dropping the retail price1? to 13? a pack, two for a quarter. The Big Four were disappointed that the retail price was slashed no more, were said to stand ready to cut & cut the wholesale price until their cigarets retail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Big & Little Four | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

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