Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles Rudolph Walgreen runs the largest chain of drug stores in the U. S. and prizes the few hours a day he can spare with his family. Each morning in the ivory-colored dining room of his Chicago apartment, overlooking Lake Michigan and the South Shore Country Club, short, bald Drugman Walgreen and his wife take breakfast together. Before Daughter Ruth and Son Charles Jr. were married, they, too, turned up for breakfast. The Walgreens are given to talking much over their eggs. But since Mrs. Walgreen's niece Lucille Norton graduated from a Seattle high school and went...
...other reason than the fact that his 1,286,000 shares were last week worth $25,000,000, Sebastian Spering Kresge is a notable U. S. businessman. Starting with one store in Detroit less than 40 years ago, he branched & branched until today his chain has some 700 units throughout the eastern half of the U. S. and Canada. Last year those stores sold to the U. S. middle classes $137,000,000 worth of assorted merchandise at a profit...
Tosh is the popular impression that France has protected herself with a tight-drawn "chain" of steel fortresses against German attack Actually the $150,000,000 worth of steel and concrete forts are "fence-posts," not a chain. This week a horde of French and Moroccan troops is stringing the fence between the posts digging trenches from fort to fort, stringing barbed wire, testing sirens which at the approach of Germans, would scream so loudly that French villagers could hear them for a distance of seven miles and start to evacuate...
...shot in September 1881, a party of U. S. soldiers under a young lieutenant, up from Civil War ranks, arrived at Lady Franklin Bay on barren Ellesmere Island, some 600 mi. from the North Pole. This Army detachment's job was to set up one of an international chain of circumpolar stations for scientific observation. For two years the party collected data and specimens, sent out exploring expeditions of which one set a new "farthest North" by getting within 450 mi. of the Pole. A relief ship which the War Department had promised to send in the summer...
Hastily organized was the Committee of Public Utility Executives with headquarters at Washington's Mayflower Hotel. Representing most of the U. S. power business, the Committee issued memoranda and analyses of the proposed legislation, prepared statements, encouraged protest. The American Federation of Utility Investors, which through chain letters has collected nearly 1,000,000 signatures to a petition against Government power projects, opened fire on the latest threat to the interests which it frankly represents...