Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trinity Sunday, 1925, Matt Talbot fell dead in Granby Lane, Dublin, in the 70th year of his life. His emaciated body was uncovered. Around it, imbedded in his flesh, was a rusty cart chain. On his arms and legs were chains and ropes. He had worn them secretly, continually for twelve years, save in 1923 when, taken ill, he was careful to remove them before going to a hospital. Said Father Talbot, reporting the event in America a year later: "There are no accidents in this universe. Matt Talbot's sudden heart attack and his instantaneous death were Divinely...
...made president. Expansion followed and in 1927 President Merseles left to head Johns-Manville. He was in this position when he died in 1929. Succeeding him in Montgomery Ward was George Bain Everitt who had had 15 years of mail order experience. The company then began opening its chain stores. Inventories and assets shot upwards but the program'was predicated on further sales growth. Depression hit the company badly. Recent earnings have been...
...Mississippi Valley than Satan has of the Kingdom of Heaven. . . . We've got to quit voting for lodges and churches and the geography that runs along the Harlem River and has a connection with Europe. . . . The common people are like a mule, young and vigorous but chained to a post so tight it can't move. I'm for breaking that chain. . . . The zero hour of hard times will come in the winter...
...bulletin embodying the results of research into the operation of drug store chains, the third and last of a series of chain store reports, will be published within a few weeks by the Bureau of Business Research of the Harvard Business School. The two preceding bulletins revealed that grocery chains could undersell independent competitors by about ten per cent but that in the field of chain shoe stores no great difference was apparent...
...going on for about twenty years at the Business School and the current bulletin represents the result of the eighty-sixth study in this field. At first the investigators were concerned chiefly with the operation of independent retail stores and wholesale firms, but in recent years the growth of chain stores has made it necessary to broaden the scope of the research...