Word: chain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acquaintance says he once saw Muñoz down 26 Scotch & sodas in an evening). But as Governor he has tapered off. Nowadays he takes only two or three straight shots of rum or brandy as an appetizer, and dilutes his wine with water. Muñoz, a busy chain-smoker (Lucky Strikes), has lately surprised his friends by breaking the endless succession of cigarettes with an occasional cigar...
...riproaring approach has made the Her-Ex one of the biggest moneymakers in the Hearst chain. Campbell doesn't think there is any mystery about how he has done it. Says he: "I try to see what the people are thinking and talking about, and give it to them...
...Love is rarer still: it got there in spite of an apathetic public. Its only impetus has come from a stubbornly stagestruck millionaire named Anthony Brady Farrell, an angel with the largest wingspread ever seen on Broadway.* In the year since Farrell took a leave from his Albany chain factory, he has spent more than $2,000,000 plunging where others fear to tread...
Last week, while other clothing stores were pulling in their horns, Robert Hall thought it was just the time to expand some more. It was building seven more stores in six cities, stretching the chain from Manhattan to the Pacific Coast...
Under the Hat. Robert Hall's sales, competitors guess, may now be crowding $75 million a year. But no one really knows because the sales and net are included in the overall figures of United Merchants & Manufacturers Inc., the huge, sprawling textile empire which owns the Robert Hall chain...