Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conventional way of thinking about causes and effects imagines them as a chain, one link leading to the next. Hegel's dialectic presented a more turbulent picture: every idea (thesis) has its opposite (antithesis) with which it struggles until they produce a third idea (synthesis); this in turn has its antithesis, and so on. Marx expressed history by putting class conflicts in the place of thesis and antithesis. The culminating conflict was that called forth by The Machine. The last synthesis, which would be unique because it would not contain its own negation, would be the classless society...
...send steel. From his Great Lakes Steel Corp. in Detroit, Weir also sent Quonset-type buildings. The Pennsylvania Railroad helped out by giving priorities to Reese's materials and stopping through trains at Scio just to unload them. When he ran short of cash, five New York chain stores, which had sold millions of pieces of Reese-made china, lent him $10,000 apiece. They told him he could take ten years to pay it back in cups and saucers...
They held that, in the event of a future war, the U.S. would be largely dependent on Arabian oil. It also depends on the friendship of 45 million Arabs for its chain of Middle East airfields...
...went west as editor of the Seattle Star, switched to the Tacoma Times just before the Star winked out in a forced sale last year (TIME, Aug. 25). The Scripps brothers, down to the last four links of a western chain that once had eleven papers, invited him (at around $12,000 a year) to beef up the Times. Newsmen wondered if the Scripps brothers could digest Townes's robust journalism. If they could, the guess is that Townes will get the bigger job of running the chain...
...biggest obstacle is the high cost of photoengraving the Vari-Typed pages. Coxhead hopes that engraving cost will soon be cut by another new invention. John H. Perry, publisher of a chain of Florida newspapers, and William J. Higgens have developed a method of photoengraving Vari-Typing directly on printing-press plates. By combining their method with his, Coxhead hopes to make Vari-Typing as cheap as linotyping...