Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France's midriff is the bleak Massif Central, mountain chain where rise little streams which become rivers that water most of Southwestern France. Last week four days' rain filled the porous mountainsides like a sponge, precipitated a flood which covered a district large as Pennsylvania, killed more than 300 people, did $24,000,000 worth of damage...
...risen so high, times became comparatively lean. He organized Kay Features, a syndicate which has not proven eminently successful. The rumor that he might help form and head a new chain of newspapers has not, to date, materialized. But, besides his medal, Newsman Koenigsberg can point pridefully to a journalistic career begun at the age of 13, when, as a result of winning a Chamber of Commerce essay prize, he began reporting on the San Antonio Times...
...people realize, however, what a highly centralized industry the film business is," Mr. Alstock remarked. "There are just four big companies: Fox, which owns the chain of Loew theatres; Paramount, which controls the Publix theatres; Warner First National; and Radio Keith Orpheum. The latter is under the headship of the Radio Corporation of America. So one great company manufactures the radio sets on which you hear, hires artists to broadcast and to make comedy reels, and owns the theatres in which the reels are shown...
...basis for such protest, however, is found as much in the result as in the cause itself. The present system of entrance requirements has made of the preparatory school no more than a necessary link in a systematic, and oftentimes cruelly mechanical, chain. Under the dictates of the Old and the New Plans the secondary school of today is rapidly affiliating itself with the professional tutoring bureau which retains at least the saving grace of making no pretenses or excuses for its existence. A preparatory training should undoubtedly have more to offer than an intensive competition which is limited...
...Wanamaker had opened branch stores in Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Richmond, Memphis, St. Louis, Louisville, did not continue this experiment in chain-stores because he would not have a business he could not personally supervise. In 1876 he started a mail-order business, was the first U. S. merchant to send buyers abroad. In 1877 he bought the old Grand Depot next to the new City Hall, started...