Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...racket along strictly conventional lines. Their Association charged a $250 initiation fee, $5 per month dues. Its terrorized members-in-cluding such famed restaurants as The Hollywood, Lindy's, Brass Rail, St. Regis and Jack Dempsey's-were additionally shaken down for whatever they were worth. One chain paid $17,000. Jack Dempsey got off with $285, possibly because he gave the Association prestige by posing before newscameras with two of its operators. Profits from the racket were $2,000,000 per year-all of which, by regular racket custom, was presumably paid by patrons in the shape...
...laying. Not long after Christmas farmers found themselves with more pails of fresh eggs than they could sell. Early last month the New York egg market was glutted, wholesale prices were abnormally low, farmers were beginning to reduce chicken feed and to slaughter too-productive pullets. Meanwhile the great chain grocery stores which sell New Yorkers about one billion eggs a year were making about 11? a dozen on the spread between wholesale and retail prices. Upon this scene moved Surplus Commodities Corp. To strengthen the wholesale market it recommended, and Secretary Wallace approved, purchase of 179,000 dozen eggs...
...relief agencies in the flood area. Over SCC's second objective-getting retail prices down so that greater egg consumption would reduce the surplus-pre-sided the angel of publicity. Spotting government concern over eggs, the vigilant New York World-Telegram announced with three-column headlines that chain grocers whose eggs cost them 34? a dozen were selling them for 45?, making three times as much profit as they made in 1935. "There is no known method," said the World-Telegram blandly, "of forcing the chains to reduce their retail price ... so that consumers can use and farmers sell...
Like Black Fury and I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Black Legion makes no effort to mollify its message. Robert Lord's vigorous story investigates the Legion from three angles: its effect on Tay lor, its purpose of making money for a crew of cold-blooded organizers, and its own mob activities of night raids, arson, beatings and finally murder. When fear of the police has forced. Taylor to kill his best friend, the picture comes to a climax in a courtroom sequence which achieves a new high for judicial severity on the screen. Good shot...
Hardest hit by the Bank Night ban was the Balaban & Katz chain of 39 Chicago theatres whose Bank Night profits are estimated at $60,000 a week. First move of Balaban & Katz was to discontinue Bank Night in all their theatres...