Word: chain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Attorney General wants to put the A. & P. out of business because it sells good food too cheap yet absorbs the difference out of profits. Maybe the American people do not necessarily feel like "fugitives from a chain store...
Enrico Fermi, a Nobel Prizewinner, left Fascist Italy before the last war, continued his researches at Columbia University and became a U.S. citizen. He was a top man on the team that put the first chain-reacting pile to work in Chicago in 1942. Last week he prescribed energy and vigilance as antidotes for panic: "American supremacy is predictable up to 20 years if we work hard. As for me, I expect to sleep as well as my insomnia permits. I'm a fatalist by nature, anyway...
...forging his chain of 15 hotels, big, bounding Conrad N. Hilton, 62, bought such landmarks as Chicago's huge (2,700 rooms) Stevens, Manhattan's dignified old Plaza, and Los Angeles' flashy Town House. But Connie Hilton still wasn't satisfied. He wanted to own Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria...
...never forgot his goal. Last week, Connie Hilton proudly announced that he had reached it. Both he and the Waldorf's stockholders had signed the deal, and barring "a fire, an atom bomb or a nuisance suit," the Waldorf would become No. 16 in the Hilton chain this week...
Smith studied store traffic, found that 50% of cigarette customers were women, and announced the new policy. To catch the feminine eye, Smith will stock nylons, purses, costume jewelry and cosmetics. If the new-type store catches on, he hopes to make Schulte the "fastest-growing chain in America...