Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks or several years. Eventually he embarked again, sailed westward through Hudson Strait into Hudson Bay, whose waters his party found teeming with cod and salmon, the shores abounding with caribou, musk ox, ducks, geese, loons. From the southern shore of Hudson Bay, they journeyed inland through a chain of lakes and rivers, finally started overland on an Indian portage which leads to Lake Superior. In Ontario, some two miles from a place now named Beardmore, the Norseman died or was killed by Indians. He was buried there with his sword, shield...
...Flesh wounds are frequently inflicted. Paul de Kruif (Microbe Hunters') did not know that "rubeola" means measles. Economist Stuart Chase did not know that ''multiple shops" is British for chain stores. F.P.A. attributed some of his own verses to Dorothy Parker...
...jokes are neat rather than new, the lyrics trip smartly but lack kick, the tunes are good to hear but hard to hum. Composer Rome offers nothing so bomb-bursting as his last season's Sing Me a Song with Social Significance, nothing so hilarious as his Chain Store Daisy. Only once could a first-night audience, half drawn from Who's Who and half from the Social Register, roar with joy: when a packed stageful of Negroes shagged, capered, clapped, galumphed, jumped up & down in a great spontaneous whirl of excitement...
...Cracked down on a Chicago drug chain's advertising. In the first such action since the Wheeler-Lea Act amended the Federal Trade Commission Act last June, FTC announced that upon its recommendation a U. S. District Court had enjoined Hartman stores from advertising a weight-reducing remedy named 281 because in doing so the chain had failed to reveal that use of the preparation "may be injurious to the health...
...Youngest member of the young industry is the Mutual Broadcasting System. Network radio had had several unsuccessful efforts to build a fourth national chain to compete with NBC's Red and Blue, CBS, when in 1934 an advertiser who wanted to reach New York and Chicago listeners, but did not want to pay the cost of network broadcasting, approached stations WOR (Newark) and WGN (Chicago) to make a deal. The sponsor wanted to put on a show to be aired over the two stations. The show originated in Newark and he proposed to pay each station its standard time...