Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brass-helmeted firemen, rushing to the rescue, found the Glen Theatre's doors blocked solid with bodies "like a wall of cement bags." Cutting a hole through the roof, smashing windows they formed a living chain to pass out 70 small bodies, many trampled beyond recognition under stout Scotch boots. Inside the theatre, a few calm children were still alive...
...Star and the Post, the city's other evening newspaper, there exists a state of healthy, oldtime journalistic competition. The Post, with a slightly larger circulation (200,300), is independent, quick to snatch up the torch of popular issues, taking its political cue from the national Scripps-Howard chain to which it belongs. The Times-Star (circulation: 160,500) claims the support of the Best Families, boasts a greater bulk of advertising in its thick pages. Each watches its rival narrowly, trying to scoop city news and beat the other's editions to the street...