Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bendix prize for the meet's longest distance flight went to Chester J. Decker of Glen Rock, N. J. On the last day of the meet he took off from Elmira, climbed to 5,500 ft., found a "street" (chain of cumulus clouds). Swinging beneath it in long, irregular parabolas from cloud to cloud, he proceeded to Ottsville, Pa., where he glided down - 146 miles from Elmira. His flight narrowly missed the U. S. record of 158 miles...
Undaunted, Clarence Saunders borrowed $2,900 from a onetime employe, made and lost a second fortune in a chain called "Clarence Saunders- Sole Owner of My Name." In 1931 he popped up in Memphis with a jazz band opening for still another merchandising venture. Boasted he: "You'll see yet that I'll build up the biggest industry in the world." That enterprise soon folded and Storeman Saunders, took over the "world rights" to a cleaning fluid called "Evernew," announced he had "thoroughly investigated the cleanser and found it to be the best on the market." "Evernew" also...
Active command of the world's liveliest newspaper chain changed hands this week with a characteristic minimum of fuss & feathers. Robert Paine Scripps, controlling stockholder of Scripps-Howard Newspapers, announced that William Waller Hawkins was succeeding Roy Wilson Howard as board chairman. For Mr. Hawkins the shift was not only a hard-earned promotion but the fulfillment of a precedent which has become part of U. S. journalistic tradition. For 30 years, as Bill Hawkins and Roy Howard have climbed the publishing ladder, Big Bill has repeatedly helped boost his little friend up a rung, then succeeded...
...Scripps-Howard chain, the World-Telegram's metropolitan performance is almost exclusively a Roy Howard show. Singlehanded in 1931 he carried through the negotiations by which the failing Brothers Pulitzer's Worlds were merged for $3,000,000 (plus $2,000,000 future profits) with the flashy Scripps-Howard Telegram, bought four years before. It was Publisher Howard who junked the morning and Sunday Worlds, announced to a skeptical city that the independent, crusading, liberal traditions of Joseph Pulitzer's great paper had suffered not death but "rebirth." Not until 1933, when the World-Telegram...
...Come here, you big lunk!" shouted the head keeper few minutes later. Blood dripping from his single tusk, Wally padded over to the fence, let one hind foot be chained. But when the brave keeper attempted to chain his front feet, Wally swept the man's straw hat into his mouth, crunched, spat out the pieces. The front feet remained unchained...