Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adopted a resolution to survey the Federal Reserve banking system, chain & branch banking, carrying speculative securities, issuing call loans to brokers for speculation...
...Merchants' Association, meeting in the Bankers' Club, Manhattan, inspected figures such as these. Three years ago, at the suggestion of the National Negro Business League, the C. M. A. was founded in Montgomery, Ala. Since then it has expanded rapidly, now boasts 253 stores. Not quite a chain, since the members all are independent grocers, it has such chain advantages as cooperative buying, co-operative advertising. At last week's meeting the C. M. A. planned organization of its own personnel, apart from the N. N. B. L., and the appointment of six field men who will...
Although the Kroger chain now has 5,600 stores and 23,000 employes, is supposedly negotiating for more, all has not been going well. The 1929 operating margin was slimmer. Change from a centralized into a nine-branch decentralized system was expensive, large inventory losses have been suffered. But the real seriousness of the Kroger difficulties was not fully apparent until last week...
...wishes to enjoy the deep laugh, the sparkling conversation of William Henry Welch should seek him out at Baltimore's Maryland or University Clubs, where he often sits playing chess; or in the white-tiled chain restaurant where he frequently eats; or at the university whose medical school he has made world-famed...
...Manhattan's Bench and Bar. The most bitter part of this litigation had centred about an agreement signed on Dec. 3, 1929. At this time Mr. Fox, who during 1929 had spent some $90,000,000 in purchasing control of Loew's, Inc., and of the Gaumont chain of British cinema houses, and whom the collapse of the stockmarket had left in debt to the extent of about $65,000,000, had consented to the formation of a Trusteeship consisting of Mr. Stuart, Mr. Otterson and Mr. Fox. Mr. Fox quickly fell out with his fellow trustees...