Word: chain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their heyday in the '305, Ed and Jim Scripps had eleven links in their Western newspaper chain. By 1947, when the Scripps-owned Seattle Star folded up, only four links were left in the Scripps League. Last week, death came to the Tacoma (Wash.) Times, and there were only three...
...first report of such letters came from Kentucky three weeks ago, then from other states. The sender, whoever he was, gave the stunt a chain-letter twist by urging "dear miss" to send copies to five or six other "innocent and unsuspecting young people." Who in Seattle had it in for the U.S. public-school system? A crackpot, was one likely answer. Mrs. Pearl A. Wanamaker, superintendent of public instruction for the state of Washington, thought that too much time and too many postage stamps were involved; it sounded more like Communists to her. Last week the National Education Association...
Died. John Martin, 64, "Uncrowned King of South Africa" for three decades; after long illness; in Johannesburg. Martin managed the Argus newspaper chain (15 dailies, 13 weeklies), headed famed "Corner House," which controlled 16 gold mines and had a hand in a dozen more...
...lure his customers abroad with all the comforts of home, Trippe is promoting an $80 million chain of eleven tourist hotels. Local capital is financing them, but Pan Am's Intercontinental Hotels Corp., holding a token 1% interest, will run them. Costing $5 to $10 million each, they will dot South America, with more to be built later in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. One in Montevideo is almost finished; others are abuilding in Caracas and Bogot...
...small town which hears a striking similarity to Newburyport, Massachusetts, is a junior executive in a staid old New York bank. During a critical week in his life, when the turning-point of his career in the shape of a possible vice-presidency looms ahead, a chain of circumstances leads him mentally and physically back to his home town. Most of the book is a long flashback describing Charley Gray's childhood and youth...