Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until last week what threatened to be the most baffling political choice for Nebraska voters was the candidacies of George W. Norris and George W. Norris for the Senatorial nomination. One Norris is the oldtime insurgent U. S. Senator. The other is a clerk in a chain grocery store at Broken Bow. Nebraska law required nominating petitions to be filed on or before July 3. Grocer Norris' petition arrived July 5. Secretary of State Marsh accepted it on the ground that it was in the mails on July...
...Most remarkable report of the week was that of Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. of America whose 17,000 chain stores turned in gross sales of $548,059,000 for the first six months of 1930. This is up $41,222,000 from 1929, an 8.13% in crease.* June sales came to $82,882,000 and 407,085 in tons, as against June 1929 totals of $76,653,000 and 353,289 tons. The gain in tonnage, about twice as great as the gain in profits, is significant. A. & P. has opened few new stores, has swelled its profits...
...market price (TIME, July 7). Chairman Legge had sharply reminded him that the Farm Board was no "Santa Claus!" In their hotel lobby Chairman Legge met Governor Reed, joshed him: "Don't mind Hyde and me. We're harmless. But watch out for these economists. They're chain lightning when you tangle with them...
...Investigated: 1) lobbying; 2) Congressional campaign expenses; 3) Communists; 4) chain and branch banking; 5) naval aviation; 6) post office leases; 7) repeal of the 18th Amendment; 8) the Pure Food & Drug Administration...
...bought it as a rundown property from Henry Holiday Timken (roller bearings). Still financially run down was it last week when Publisher Cox, who makes money with his Miami News, Springfield News, Dayton News and Springfield Sun, sold it to Brush-Moore Newspapers Inc., the Ohio chain which publishes the Canton Repository (evening). Brush-Moore did to the News what chain-publishers usually do to unprofitable papers, no matter what their fame-killed...