Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perform abortions. Lack of evidence gained Dr. Wilson an acquittal. His associate, a skillful amateur named Paul de Gaston, was fined $100 & costs for practicing medicine without a license. Notwithstanding the insignificant disposition of these cases, they brought to light enough evidence to expose an amazingly widespread and efficient chain of Pacific Coast abortaria extending from Seattle to San Diego, to cause California to indict five doctors, a businessman, eight lesser associates. Last week the 14 were on trial in Los Angeles...
...Vernon Ferguson of Los Angeles, assisted by Prosecutor John J. McMahon of San Francisco, set forth the charges on which he expected to send the defendants to jail. Two years ago, cried Prosecutor Ferguson, Reginald L. Rankin, a onetime Washington lumberman, conceived the idea of a great businesslike abortaria chain to accommodate the thousands of California, Oregon and Washington women who wished to avoid the logical result of conception. First step was to make a deal with a skilled operator, Dr. George Eliot Watts of Los Angeles, graduate of the University of Oregon Medical School in 1895. In California...
...formidable corporation called the Independent Grocers' Alliance of America. IGA is formidable because it is not only a capitalistic but an extremely efficient co-operative enterprise as well. It is an organ of enlightenment, a system of distribution, a father &mother to small grocers and the largest voluntary chain in the U. S. Last week 6,500 grocers in 44 states lighted candled birthday cakes in their windows to mark, proudly and with gratitude, IGA's tenth birthday...
...some 900 other items sold in IGA stores are purchased by IGA wholesalers through IGA "Headquarters," which charges manufacturers the regular brokerage commission. "Headquarters" has not gone into manufacturing, is unlikely to do so. It buys more food from U. S. manufacturers and farmers than any other wholesale or chain organization except Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. To test, ship and merchandise this food it employs 150 people at the Chicago office, and at branches in Seattle, New York, San Francisco...
...about 40 hunched and helmeted figures charge out on the field my first instinct was to fly. They all looked like an Australian desperado named Ned Kelly. This gentleman was a bush ranger (first cousin to a gangster), who, in the last century, acquired a coat of chain mail, made himself a helmet out of a kerosene tin, and terrified the Australian bush by daring feats of robbery and violence...