Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great have been the changes in food distribution within the decade. Chain grocery stores have increased from 20,000 to 65,000, with some 3,000 systems now in the field. Small packers, not bound by the consent decree, have gone into the retail trade, done the very things the large packers were prohibited from doing. Chain store systems have invaded the meat packing industry. Armour and Swift have naturally felt handicapped. They are doing a food business on a 1920 basis while their competitors operate with 1930 methods...
Under the head of "sustaining" programs (where the chain or the local station pays for the talent) are the 27 concerts to be broadcast (Columbia) by the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. Last week listeners heard Erich Kleiber, new Berlin conductor (TIME, Oct. 13). They will hear Arturo Toscanini in November, later Bernardino Molinari. Fortnight ago the Boston Symphony under Sergei Koussevitzky gave its first program exclusively for radio (N. B. C.) but the Boston Symphony will not broadcast regularly until Symphony Hall conditions are more favorable than they are now. The Metropolitan Opera continues to ignore radio. The Chicago Civic...
...show starting today has been arranged in the spirit of the Tercentenary year, and is composed of paintings created two or three hundred years ago, paintings that in the minds of the Society form a definite link in the chain of development of contemporary art. The paintings shown are unacademic and unrelated to the established schools, having been done by persons who were self taught and hence less bound by strict criterions...
Confident of the ultimate outcome of chain methods was Silas Hardy Strawn, chairman of Montgomery, Ward & Co. "The agencies attempting to create public distrust in the chain methods of distribution should and must be counteracted," said he. ". . . An enlightened public will be a friend and not an enemy." He carefully examined the legal end of the situation, said legislation against chain stores is in almost all. cases unconstitutional...
Outlook. With profits down, agitation rising, the outlook for chains last week was sufficiently beclouded to justify the term "crisis." Yet while the conventioneers were enroute for Chicago, Moody's Investors Service published an analysis of the outlook that cheered chain store men. "Just as there was a tendency toward an impatient anticipation of future growth, so there is now an almost complete loss of perspective," said Moody's. Descriptive of Moody's opinion on grocery chains were such paragraph headings as: Grocery Stocks no Longer Market Favorites; Long Expansion Broken by Period of Consolidation; Effect...