Word: chain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other place, and the answer is, of course, any other Statler. Everything, be it scenery, food, tariffs, $1.00 cover, show, or customer, is adequate. Nothing is outstanding. Unquestionably, the Terrace Room rates high on the "get a lot for your money" list, but the heavy hand of large hotel chain management rests on the back of each chair. It is convenient to the Wellesley bus terminal, though...
Bernstein got his own training seven moths ago, amid tear gas and fire hoses, as first mate of the Chain Arlossoroff...
Political Crisis. There was the chain reaction of political crisis. There was scarcely a political area on the map of Europe or Asia that was unthreatened within or without. In Korea, U.S.-Russian negotiations had broken down. India was in the throes of mass murder and fleeing populations. Persia, stiffened by promises of U.S. support, was resisting Russian demands. Greece (and the U.S. support of Greece) was confronted by the danger of a rival Greek Communist state, supported by Russia through her Balkan stooges. Almost anything might happen in Italy...
Early this year, a man walked into the Detroit offices of the Kresge Co.'s variety chain. He introduced himself to the merchandising manager, then took out a small pipe no bigger than a soda straw and quickly blew a glasslike bubble as big as a watermelon. Then he detached it and handed it to the merchandising manager. Bubble in hand, the manager hastily called a meeting of Kresge's entire sales department to consider this wonderful...
...other possibility was to construct a chain-reacting pile made of uranium combined with some substance to slow down the neutrons shot out by its fissioning atoms. Theory indicated that carbon or heavy water would serve as this "moderator." The U.S. used carbon (graphite), but the Germans decided it would not do. This was a bad mistake; it led them to use heavy water, which could be produced only by a slow and costly process...