Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Small tradesmen especially swear by Hitler for the reason that, although he has not yet abolished chain stores in Germany as he promised to do he has blocked existing chains from expanding the number of their branches and provided that if a branch is discontinued it cannot be re-opened or relocated...
Hard times merely put Bernarr Macfadden on his mettle. In 1931, at the depth of Depression, he opened the first of five Penny Restaurants in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Chicago, Washington, D. C. First promulgated by Macfadden in the 1907 Panic, the chain sells minimum victuals at minimum prices. Last week Macfadden restaurant figures showed a deficit of only $5,610.40 for the first half of 1936. Also acquired in 1931 was Liberty, now the big façade of the Macfadden publishing structure. Publishers Joseph Medill Patterson and Robert Rutherford McCormick could not make it pay. Under the direction of kinetic...
...Manhattan tabloid, the Evening Graphic, Publisher Macfadden thought he had the beginning of a chain of mass newspapers to rival that of William Randolph Hearst. To newsmen's surprise, the Graphic never caught on, though it did set alltime journalistic marks for sensational incoherence. In 1932, after a scheme to unload the failing sheet on its employes had been abandoned, Publisher Macfadden regretfully jettisoned the Graphic. Main money-makers for Mr. Macfadden have been the pioneer sex-confession magazine True Story, for which he claims the largest monthly newsstand circulation of any magazine on earth (total...
...take him to see his girl. The girl was being escorted by Red Currie, who had just received his new Sizzle Pants and thought he was making a good impression. When the girl disappeared, Red blamed Spike for it, got into a fight, shot him dead. Thereupon, by a chain of illogical events Spike's friends lynched the luckless blackamoor Spike had beaten earlier in the evening. Mail-order catalogs had been burned in the flame of local patriotism, but next morning new ones were ordered, and the hot, bitter, hungry life of Conchartee was back to normal...
...rural trade, and the great rural regions of the U. S. lie 1) in the Mississippi Valley, 2) in the North Central States (Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin) and 3) in the old South. The growth of cities, the building of roads that took farmers to town, the competition of chain stores, led Sears Roebuck in 1925 to begin opening retail stores. By 1929 it had upwards of 300 stores, today 400. This year, as it happens, the firm is again back to about the 1929 level of business. Results for the first six months indicate that sales will nearly equal...