Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both brothers, now in their sixties, married but childless, began their careers in their father's red-fronted Great American Tea Co. on Vesey Street, Manhattan. Brother George at 15 was cashier, personally counting by hand every dollar of the daily receipts of what was then a vast chain of 100 tea stores. Brother John, seven years younger, joined the firm at 16. They and their father ran the business until 1917 when the eldest Hartford died. In 1912 they had 400 stores, but that was only a beginning. In that year John & George decided to found a cash...
Died, William Kroger, 79, brother and onetime partner of founder Bernard Kroger of Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. (chain stores); of angina pectoris; in Asheville...
...vegetable-calm existence of a chain grocery store a housewife's dissatisfaction with her cantaloupes may be considered a major misfortune. Last week in Cleveland organized Labor gave the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.'s 300 stores a taste of real trouble. Unions began picketing the company's warehouses. Trucks hauling merchandise from warehouse to store were halted. "Flying squadrons" rolled from one red-fronted store to another, growling "close up or we'll come back and close you." A few plate-glass windows got cracked. Meat Cutters', Bakers' and Retail Clerks' & Managers...
Eight years have passed. Old hatreds are forgotten, new friendships made. Sharp edges have grown dull in those eight long years. Gradually each college came sheepishly back arranging meets in minor sports, then trying the major games. At last the final link has been forged and the chain of friendly rivalry is again complete. The causes of the first fracture need not be analysed here. A new generation sits in the undergraduate seat, eager to carry on tradition...
...that group the events of 1926 are veiled in legend. Today is one which starts a new era in our athletic history, one which must be conducted with good feeling and high standards. Ours is the pleasure to witness the first tests of this rebuilded chain, ours the task to keep it whole...