Word: chain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charlie had become a top man in a Pyramid Friendship Club, a money snowballing craze which last week was sweeping across the country as the chain-letter game did 14 years ago. He was not the only man to make a fast buck. Another Detroiter got a bushel basket full of money in one evening, and gave away five-dollar bills as mementoes of the stirring occasion. People in Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and dozens of other U.S. cities and towns hit the jackpot too and found themselves in a delirious state of sudden solvency...
...still bigger drop in the cost of living, which was precisely what the U.S. consumer had been hollering for. Hogs slumped to within 50? of the OPA level. Cattle worth $28.50 a hundredweight a week ago dropped to $24.50. Retail meat prices came down another 2? to 4?, chain stores trimmed egg prices 6?, wholesale soap came down 6%. Whether meat would continue the fast drop was questionable. Thousands of sheep & cattle had already died in the blizzards on the rangelands, though ranchers were desperately bulldozing paths through the snow to get their animals to food and water. The heavy...
Flaxy Martin (Warner) is a chain reaction of horror and violence. A gullible young lawyer (Zachary Scott) is in love with a double-crossing blonde (Virginia Mayo). He imagines that she is going to help him break away from his job as legal chore boy for a gang of hoodlums; instead, she helps frame him for murder. When he manages to escape from the guard who is carting him off to prison, the gang's trigger man catches up with him. This leads to the most gruesome of the movie's assortment of gruesome scenes: Scott...
Teddy's Valeteria was part of a chain of Cambridge and Somerville cleaning and dyeing establishments owned by the Cammarata family...
...Hardly Wait." There was nothing stuffy about Peter Marshall, even when he thundered from the pulpit against liquor, sexy magazine pictures, and Hollywood divorces. He wore tweed jackets, polo shirts and bright ties, chain-smoked cigarettes and once surprised some elderly churchwomen by banging on a piano and singing Oh, You Beautiful Doll. A member of no party, he called himself "progressive and liberal." At times his philosophy was reflected in pointed prayers before the Senate. Marshall once implored: "Help us to care, as Thou dost care, for the little people who have no lobbyists, for the minority groups...