Word: chain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exactly 3:52 of a wintry Chicago afternoon in 1942, a scientist working in the University of Chicago's tightly guarded athletic field house dryly announced: "The curve is exponential." The speaker was Dr. Enrico Fermi; his four quiet words meant that a chain reaction had just been successfully brought about in the experimental uranium pile. Last week a TIME correspondent witnessed the unveiling of a plaque to mark the site...
...This chain letter, started to bring happiness to tired college men, costs no money. Simply send a copy to five males. Then bundle up your wife and send her to the fellow who heads the list...
Have faith. Do not break the chain...
...broke the chain and got his own wife back...
Rank set the stage by announcing a proposed merger which, in effect, will give theater managers control over film production. Odeon Theaters, Lt., Britain's third largest theater chain (350 houses), has offered to pay ?1,225,000 for control of Rank's privately owned producing and distributing company, General Cinema Finance Corp...