Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first two seasons, the track, which cost $1,000,000, made $1,350,000 for its promoters, chief among whom are Cinema Producer Hal Roach and a onetime San Francisco chain-parlor dentist named Charles Strub. Last year, Santa Anita bettors wagered more than $25,000,000, of which the State took $1,000,000. Last week, bets on the Handicap alone were $396,553, a record. Santa Anita's backers have put much of their profits into improvements. This year they are spending $25,000 on Peruvian olive trees in the paddock, Bird of Paradise plants...
...traceable to the necessity for broader, free, and more embracive thinking, with particular reference to the increasing complexity and specialization of contemporary society. A physicist must know more than atomic structure, a pianist more than his keyboard, a politician more than his patronage system, a laborer more than his chain-belt. He must also attempt to understand the interrelationship of them all. Hence the demand for new leaders, whether they be philosophic journalists of untrammeled professors...
Died. Goldie Balaban Levin, 67, mother of Chicago's seven Balaban brothers (President Barney of Paramount Pictures Inc., Harry, Elmer, John, David, A. J. and the late Max), who rented their first motion picture theatre with her $500 capital, built up the $20,000,000 Balaban & Katz chain; after brief illness; in Miami...
...Schrafft's restaurant has just opened at 23 Brattle Street, Harvard Square. It is the sixth in the Schrafft chain in Greater Boston, and is decorated in the Colonial style inside...
Last summer Roy Wilson Howard, up-from-the-bottom publisher of the New York World-Telegram and chairman of the 25 Scripps-Howard chain papers,* declared that the American Newspaper Guild, rising new newshawks' union, was a menace and he would neither recognize nor treat with it. Last month, Mr. Howard's representatives announced that "in the spirit of the Wagner law" they would talk with a Guild committee representing editorial workers on the New York World-Telegram. Last week, after hours and days of wrangling, the New York Guild Committee wrung from the management a statement that...