Word: chain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elevator operators in Los Angeles' City Hall were told to stop calling out. "War Department!" for the floor on which Divorces are granted, "Flatfoot Alley!" for police headquarters, and "Ball & Chain!" for the city attorney's criminal division...
...Arab zones of Palestine when the British withdraw. Some of his Arab neighbors (especially Syria, which resents Abdullah's aspirations to rule a Greater Syria) suspected that, once installed, Abdullah's Legionnaires would stay in Palestine. Abdullah's delegate to the League, Prime Minister Samir Rifai, chain-smoked nervously through last week's meetings...
Butcher Club. A new moneymaking trick with all the appeal of a chain letter was being tried out by many a U.S. meat market. To spur sales, nipped by high prices, retailers were selling at wholesale prices. They made their profit by charging customers a weekly fee for the privilege of wholesale buying. Butchers were making enough on the fees to pass on savings of as much as 25% to customers...
Radcliffe President W. K. Jordan and three queens of spades seized shovels firmly yesterday morning, delved up four clods of Quadrangle turf, and started a chain reaction which will end sometime in 1949 when the last brick of Moors Hall, seventh Annex dormitory is mortared...
They shooed the photographers away and the radio men took over. They unveiled the bronze plaque on which was written: "On December 2, 1942 man achieved here the first self-sustaining chain reaction and thereby initiated the controlled release of nuclear energy." Fermi said a few shy words. Iowa's Bill Waymack, representing the Atomic Energy Commission, also said something. The crowd of 150 didn't hear what they said because the public-address system got fouled up. The red-faced man came back out of the excavation again and asked: "They get it all fixed...