Word: chain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newsprint imports had been banned. Now the Government was letting paper in if buyers surrendered part of it for resale to the noisy pro-Perón press. Staunchly independent La Prensa, desperate for newsprint, was asked to give up half its incoming shipments; the more tractable El Mundo chain (one newspaper, six magazines, a radio station) could keep 70%. The warning to the press was clear: angle your stories right to stay in business...
Exception to the rule is the Outing Club. For a college in which everyone skis, the club maintains a chain of 16 cabins and several shelters reaching out into the Vermont hills. On Mt. Moosilauke, known familiarly as "Dartmouth's Mountain," the club has set up 14 miles of ski trails with "Hell's Highway" one of the steepest runs in New England. Out on the golf course are 13 more miles of ski trails, a 1200 foot tramway, and two mammoth jumps. The Outing Club is probably one of the most active outdoor groups in the country...
Tricky Mix. Schary's tactics have paid off. Until he went to RKO, the chain's uneven movie production was just an appendix to its operation of some 125 theatres. RKS's setup was to make a few pictures, hire others from independent producers. It was on such a lease arrangement that RKO took over Schary in 1946 from David O. Selznick. The first four pictures he made for RKO (Spiral Staircase, Till the End of Time, The Farmer's Daughter and The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer) helped lift RKO's 1946 net income...
Died. Charles Francis ("Pop") Adams,* 70, millionaire president of the First National chain of grocery stores, co-founder of the Boston Bruins hockey team, organizer of the Suffolk Downs rare track; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Boston...
...Indoor Athletic Building moved into its final stages Thursday evening and yesterday as the University Housing Office, breaking its own deadline by 36 hours, assigned the last member of the beleaguered undergraduate garrison billeted there to rooms in the Yard or in the Dudley, Apley, Claverly. Little chain...