Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came to a sudden end last week after five uproarious months. The strike was called last August by two unions, Bakery Workers and Cafeteria Employes, after they lost a collective bargaining election. Less than 500 of the 5,600 employes of the Horn & Hardart nickel-in-the-slot restaurant chain walked out, but what they lacked in numbers was more than made up in zeal. For the dispute soon boiled down to old-fashioned police-baiting. Immediate issue was the right of the police to limit the number of pickets. Total arrests ran above...
...spent 1918-23 in Leavenworth Prison for too violent pacifism, launched the San Francisco daily People's World on $33.000 raised by California Communists. After Chicago's Midwest Daily Record gets under way February 12, People's World will be western link in a cross-country chain of Communist papers anchored to New York's Daily Worker. Almost bare of advertising, first week's issues of People's World gave 20,000 readers a generous three cents' worth of bellicose headlines about "SHIPOWNERS PLOT LOCKOUT" and "Portrait of a Fink...
...snuggles at the foot of the picturesque Sierra Madre Mountains. There Inglewood was momentarily stumped. Inglewood is close to the sea but not close enough to afford its paying guests a view of the twinkling Pacific. But Hollywood brains soon found a solution. Inglewood will have a man-made chain of lakes in the infield, with fountains and waterfalls for good measure. And then, just to make sure it will be the last word: a revolving paddock...
Still too early to estimate are the results of the boycott of Japan's manufactured products. Last week S. H. Kress & Co., the McCrory Stores, the Woolworth chain, S. S. Kresge Co., H. L. Green Co. announced they would place no new orders for Japanese goods. U. S. imports of Japanese foodstuffs, housewares, toys, cotton goods and other manufactured products valued in 1936 at some $76,700,000- substitutes for which are procurable in domestic and other foreign markets-may be affected if this movement grows...
...Boosted to the presidency of William Randolph Hearst's ten-station radio chain, the President's second son, Elliott Roosevelt, became a big man in the Hearst empire, charged with full and heavy responsibility for making money out of a $2,000,000 string of stations in Oklahoma City, San Antonio, Waco, Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Baltimore, New York, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee. For two years Elliott ably managed Hearst's southwest network and only three months ago took charge of the West Coast outlets. In October (TIME, Nov. 11), Hearst's 27-year-old Radioman Roosevelt...