Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should (by we I mean most of my friends who live in the dormitory) prefer the Tivoli Theatre, one of Balaban and Katz' chain. It is convenient to the university community. Besides we go there fairly frequently, for they have most of the pictures one wants to see. Last but not least, your picture would furnish the last link in the process of rationalization necessary to justify a movie instead of study...
...Would much appreciate your exhibiting March of Time in Lensie Theatre (Gibraltar chain) in Santa...
...California last year, sportsmen all over the State were in a dither to start a track. Cineman Hal Roach (Our Gang Comedies), who plays better polo than most of his confreres, wanted one near Los Angeles. Dr. Charles H. Strub, onetime dentist who made his fortune with a chain of painless extraction parlors and later owned the San Francisco baseball club, wanted one at San Francisco. But onetime Newsboy William P. Kyne got ahead of him with Bay Meadows at San Mateo, which last week ended its successful first meet. Producer Roach and Dr. Strub got together, raised...
...Record said: "This year the radio advertisers were chary of dealing with Stokowski. They decided he was too expensive. For a series of nine Friday afternoon concerts in the fall of this year, a broadcasting chain offered $10,000 the concerts to be broadcast purely as sustaining programs since no commercial sponsors could be obtained. Of this sum Stokowski got $5,000 and the orchestra...
...were 7% ahead of 1933. Montgomery Ward rang up the best November in five years. Many a chainstore reported gains of 10% or more. Chevrolet sold 50,000 cars to consumers last month? top figure for November since 1926 when an all-time high was established. Walgreen Co. (drugstore chain) reported the best November in history...