Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another convict-I asked Courson, 'Ain't that chain too tight?' Higginbotham said, 'That chain ain't tight enough. He can still drink water...
When prisoners showed the jury how the Sunbeam neck chain and stocks were applied, Mrs. Julia Maillefert, the dead boy's mother, nearly fainted. Rallying, said she: "I am going to sit through the trial to see what kind of justice they mete out down here. I wish they'd just get one man from New Jersey on the jury...
...page stereotype press, five linotype machines, an INS wire. The presses and linotypes were left over when Publisher Andersen's two Orlando plants recently combined. With this equipment Publisher Andersen began putting out the Times (evening). His backer is Charles Edward Marsh of Marsh & Fentress, a Texas chain which has employed Publisher Andersen for the past twelve years. Most of the old Register staff have been employed by the Times. Publisher Andersen will motor the 550 mi. between Orlando, where he has an 11-month-old baby, and Mobile where he has a newborn newspaper...
...large proportion of last year's graduating class have found jobs in retail selling outlets such as department stores, retail branches of mail order houses, and chain stores. Many of the positions were quite ordinary but they provide a better path to future executive positions than almost any other jobs available at the present time. There were few banking and accounting positions open to the graduates of the school this year...
Topheavy with leases, United Cigar Stores flopped into bankruptcy (TIME, Sept. 5). David Albert Schulte a few weeks ago hinted that his chain of cigar stores would do the same thing unless landlords showed leniency. To the U. S. citizen, distinguished from the U. S. corporation, bankruptcy is not an acceptable way of cancelling a contract. During the year many a lease-saddled citizen has gone to his landlord, obtained a reduction. Others have anxiously awaited the lease's expiration, ready to haggle for a lower price or to move. Oct. 1, traditional moving day in a score...