Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present, Trans-Lux theatres will show only Pathe, Paramount or Universal newsreels. Courtland Smith, who two years ago opened Manhattan's highly successful Embassy Theatre for newsreels only, was convinced by the success of this enterprise that a chain of newsreel theatres would be profitable. The Embassy cost $19,000 and made $150,000 in one year. In the same year, Roxy's, which cost $12,000.000, made...
...Smith was discouraged by the discovery that there were only 38 theatres in the U. S. sufficiently cheap, small and well-situated to be incorporated into a news-theatre chain. He therefore investigated the possibilities of Trans-Lux projection, found that by projecting from behind the screen he could make miniature movie theatres out of small stores and offices at nominal cost. All Trans-Lux theatres will have big comfortable chairs, rows far enough apart for patrons to sit with their legs crossed. They will be too well lighted for the operations of leg-pinchers and knee-rubbers, who make...
...University argued on the affirmative side of the question, "Resolved: That the chain stores are detrimental to the best interests of the American people." The two Harvard students who urged this point of view were G.F. Oest '33 and R.M. Alt '32. The negative side of the question was presented by George Copeland and Hicks Epton, both law students in the University of Oklahoma. Professor N.C. Maynard of Tufts College made the opening speech and was presiding officer during the debate...
...Harvard team based their argument on the two broad contentions, that the chain store system constitutes a dangerous monopoly, and that the social effect of the system is harmful to the employees, the cities, and the nation...
...aspects of the chain store monopolies were considered both from the outer effects and from the inner workings. The harmful social effects were emphasized strongly by the University speakers, who claimed that this system was perpetuated by practices both unfair and distinctly injurious to the American people...