Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quiet and almost dull were the Chrysler ceremonies. The Warburg opening achieved drama by the presence of 50 armed policemen, a chain of armored trucks which delivered into the vaults of the bank $850,000,000 in cash and securities...
...announcements soon bore out these assertions: 1) Warner Brothers bought for $1,000,000 a plot in Dayton owned by Lee Warner James on which they will build a $2,500,000 theatre. 2) Warner Brothers were about to close a $2,500,000 deal giving them the Schine chain of 50 theatres in small Ohio cities, payment to be, according to the usual Warner policy of making stock payments whenever possible, 10% in cash and the balance in Warner common...
Press leaders against the tariff were the Scripps-Howard chain (25 papers) and the Hearst chain (24 papers). By word and picture they flayed "the billion-dollar Grundy Bill." The Scripps-Howard newspapers interviewed Henry Ford, quoted him as saying the bill would "stultify business and industry and increase unemploy-ment." Scripps-Howard statisticians in Washington broadcast to all papers in the chain doleful stories of what would happen if H. R. 2667 became law. An example : "The Grundy Tariff Bill will dog Americans' footsteps from the cradle to the grave?and after. The tomb will be no sanctuary from...
Sherrill manage Cincinnati for $25,000 per year, until last month when he resigned to enter the Kroger chain grocery business (TIME, May 5). Last week, after Lieut. Colonel Ulysses Simpson Grant 3rd, Washington's present Director of Public Buildings & Public Parks had refused the post, Cincinnati found its new manager in the person of Clarence Addison Dykstra, 47, Ohio-born citizen of California, a man great in theory and practice. Theory: he taught economics at Ohio State University, political science at the University of Kansas and University of California, Los Angeles. Practice: he was secretary of Cleveland...
...other project is for a building, probably at, least 63 stories high, on the plot adjacent to Mr. Adler's. It will be built for Henry L. Doherty & Co. as the first unit of a chain of skyscrapers. Unique features will include five entrances, escalators for the first seven floors, double-decked elevators of which the upper compartments will stop at odd floors, lower compartments at even ones...