Word: chain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prosperity, like chivalry, is an archaic notion, something that apple sellers in the '30s expected just around the corner. And even a good many plain Americans have agreed that free enterprise, if not downright immoral, is at least impractical in Europe today. Yet Belgium, like a healthy old chain-smoker defying the anti-nicotine prophets, is both prosperous and free...
...trustees quietly sent the Enquirer's operating statement to "a small, selected group of well-qualified people," who were invited to submit sealed bids. Among the prospective bidders: Hulbert Taft, cousin of Senator Bob Taft and operator of the 108-year-old Cincinnati Times-Star; Chain Publisher Frank Gannett; the Ridder brothers of Manhattan and Minnesota; and portly Publisher Silliman Evans of the Nashville Tennessean. Enquirer Publisher Roger Ferger, 54, who joined the staff as advertising manager in 1920, may enter a bid himself, backed by local capital. And Newspaper Broker Smith Davis had others on the string...
...revolution was caused by home permanent wave kits (TIME, Aug. 18). In less than three years, home "cold" waves, which women give themselves for $2 or less, had become a vastly profitable industry. The Rexall Drug chain had its own kit. So did Montgomery Ward & Co. Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. was about to bring one out. Wailed a Boston beauty-shop owner to a Watt Street Journal reporter: "Don't talk to me about those things; I've lost half my customers already and unless we do something I'll lose the rest...
...paneled Park Avenue office one morning last week, Manhattan Adman Emerson Foote chewed gum and chain-smoked Lucky Strikes while he waited impatiently for the reporters to crowd into his press conference. Then he quietly dropped his bombshell. He announced that high-powered Foote, Cone & Belding, Inc. had resigned its $12,000,000-a-year account as advertising agent for The American Tobacco...
Says Christopher Sykes: "It can be said, without any exaggeration at all, that those two women set in motion the most formidable chain of events. They caused panic to the enemies of France in a whole province . . . they raised an army in the defense of all that makes human life honourable and endurable, and they inspired a loyalty and love which, with the debasement of the term 'Charity,' is hard to describe; we have now no fine enough word to depict such virtue...