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Word: chain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...files and the potential users to whom it is now relatively inaccessible. The completed reports are sent to a selected list of 1,000 big brokers, bankers, statisticians, anyone else who writes in. First two were on meat packers and steel. Last week's dealt with chain variety stores. Sample fact: F. W. Woolworth Co.'s net worth per dollar of total debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Curtain | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

This, plus Tennessee Electric Power's cash reserves, was just enough to take care of its $72,000,000 in senior securities, but left nothing for the common stock. Since C. & S. owns 99% of the common, Bear Willkie roared at the end of his chain. Last fall, baited anew by a Congressional committee investigating TVA, he countered by suggesting that SEC arbitrate the issue, offered to pay all appraisal expenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLIC UTILITIES: TVA Deal | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Slowly, ever so ponderously up out of the inky depths comes the iron chamber. Like a tiny globular elevator in some vast, unpartitioned building, it rises through the water. From its top swirl several strands of seaweed which have twined themselves in the lifting chain with friendly tentacles, and which now hang loose like sparse hairs on the otherwise bald pate of the diving bell. A swirl of the dark current and these few strands, looking grayish in the gloom, drift away, leaving the head completely scalped. From the bottom of the chamber sprouts a sticky brown-black beard which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

...Federal Communications Commission ' about the way he ran his business. For five hours, Judson squirmed and squinted through the cigar smoke and a rain of questions. When the air was clear again, spectators had learned that U. S. music was organized and run as unromantically as any chain store, or stockyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chain-Store Music | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Though the 376 towns of Manager Judson's chain usually take Community's cabbage along with its caviar, they actually get a larger quantity of big-time music than would otherwise come their way. The kicks against Columbia's system have come not from its customers but from its commodity: the artists themselves. Biggest bugaboo Columbia has today is Lawrence Tibbett's dress-collar union, American Guild of Musical Artists. A. G. M. A. has never liked Columbia's practices of giving its artists oral contracts, exploiting a few big names, never letting its artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chain-Store Music | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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