Word: chain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germany to become the second front of the Algerian War?" the Frankfurter Rundschau demanded. What angered the Rundschau as well as many other Germans was a three-year chain of bombings and killings in West Germany, all unpunished. Most of the victims were Algerian nationalists, or the men who sell them arms for Algeria...
Sylvester ("Pat") Weaver, late of NBC, came to the network with credentials as program director for a West Coast radio chain, ad manager for the American Tobacco Co., and v.p. of a Madison Avenue ad agency; he was the network's president within four years, its ex-chairman three years later. When NBC's President Robert Kintner (TIME, Nov. 16) began his TV career by assuming high office at ABC, his fingers were still sore from five years as a Washington columnist. Louis George Cowan, until last week president of the CBS-TV network, seemed...
...Catania. A poor-but-honest spaghetti-puller from the old country? Not on your life. He barbered his way through the (U.S.) depression, marrying the boss's daughter. Aften ten years as a railroad brakeman, he surrendered to hay fever (dust in the baggage car) and founded a chain of pizza parlors around Boston and the Cape. "Leaning Tower of Pizza," that inspired pun, brought him national interest and the attentions of a large noodle concern. The Prince Spaghetti Company settled on Tower like a great leaking blimp, and Lou Catania sold out. The resulting cash paid for a fabulously...
...international food congress in Rome. Virtually every major Italian city has at least one supermarket-and plans for more. Two supermarkets are operating in Turin, two more in Bologna, another two in Naples. Rome alone has seven supermarkets. Last week Italy's big La Rinascente department-store chain jumped into the field, bought Rome's big Supermercato S.p.A. for a reported $750,000, and expects to gross $3,000,000 annually by offering customers 2,000 items at prices 15% below small stores. One big gainer from the new supermarkets: the Italian government, which levies a 26.85% annual...
...were only 500 self-service stores, doing less than $50 million annually. Today, Britain has more than 5,000 self-service stores, with a total annual gross of nearly $1 billion, and at least 90 new stores join the ranks each month. This week, Britain's fastest growing chain, Cookie (Allied Bakeries) Magnate Garfield Weston's Fine Fare Ltd., will open three big supermarkets in a single day, plans to double his chain of 39 stores within the next year. Weston, who controls Loblaw's Groceterias (228 stores) in Canada, and National Tea Co. (917 stores...