Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course of The Thin Man. A retired detective, in Manhattan for a holiday with his charming wife (Myrna Loy), he finds himself drawn by circumstance into trying to solve the sudden disappearance of an eccentric inventor, whose mistress has been found murdered. When the inventor's watch-chain is discovered in the dead woman's hand, when the only possible witness to the crime is found murdered also, a dull-witted police operator (Pat Pendleton) surmises that the inventor committed both crimes. While gayly consuming enormous quantities of whiskey and gin, Nick Charles chats with the inventor...
Until last week the largest chain of weekly newspapers in the land was Ohio s Procter group of 17, assembled by the late Col William Cooper Procter (Ivory Soap) and Charles Bond (Two-Pants Suits) at a cost of $300,000. Last week the Procter chain fell into second place as the three Woodyard brothers of West Virginia marched into New York State. With the help of their good friend Spruille Braden, whose father made his money in Chile copper they raised some $60,000 new capital, acquired control of eight weeklies on Long Island's plump, profitable North...
...from Spencer, might cut him down to a one-man shop, might even erase his paper entirely. Hence, Woodyard papers have paid dividends from the start, earning $3.40 - share on 3,500 shares of common stock in the last six months. And they do not bear the stamp of chain journalism...
...disk, to get 20,000,000-voltage. In Professor Van de Graaff's machine moving paper belts brush static electricity upon huge metal balls. A modification, for which he already has a 1,000,000-volt model, will consist of a single metal ball and a metal-&-porcelain chain electron "conveyor," the whole contained in a vast steel vacuum tank. Expected voltage...
...trends. To Warner Brothers salesmen in Atlantic City last fortnight. Major Albert Warner, in charge of distribution, told what his brother Jack, in charge of production, had prepared for 1934-35; Barbara Stanwyck in Willa Gather's A Lost Lady, a sequel to I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang called I'm Back in the Chain Gang; Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt, with Guy Kibbee; Anthony Adverse; Dolores Del Rio in Farewell to Shanghai; journalistic investigations of bicycle racing. Boulder Dam, roadhouses. traveling salesladies; five musical pictures...