Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American air transport routes. Its president, Juan Terry Trippe, announced a cooperative operating agreement with "Scadta" (Sociedad Colombo-Alemena de Transportes Aereos), an air transport system involving about 3,000 miles of routes in the Republic of Colombia. Joined into the links of P. A. A.'s vast chain of 13,000 miles (TIME, Feb. 17), the two systems present a formidable front to other air transport companies on the continent...
...Adopted a resolution empowering the House Banking and Currency Committee to investigate chain and group banking...
Miss Pidgeon found that the average median* wage of girls surveyed was $12 per week. Only 7% earned as high as $18 per week, while 25% earned less than $10. Chain-store girls earn about one-half of what women do in other industries. One girl out of four was under 18, only a very few over 25. Only one girl out of ten lived away from home on her earnings...
...Kress. Most of the chain stores in the S. H. Kress system are leased. About 35% of them, consisting of 71 stores in 20 states, are leased from John Franklin Corp. In 1927 S. H. Kress & Co. and John Franklin Corp. discussed a merger. Last week John Franklin Corp. proposed to S. H. Kress & Co. terms by which they could acquire the Franklin properties through an exchange of stock. Since S. H. Kress heads both companies it seems likely the terms will be agreeable...
...Henry Ford should actually devote the rest of his life to a $100,000,000 chain of technical schools, he would discover that the apparently crowded field of motor manufacturing is sparsely occupied in comparison with the academic grove. The rivalry among educators was never so keen as it is today. In no other country do so many institutions try to attract students--the sad experience of "Jude the Obscure" in Thomas Hardy's overpowering novel seems hardly possible in the United States. From the time when a child is ready for kindergarten until and A.B., he enters a graduate...