Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the People's Political Council, advisory body to Chiang Kai-shek's Government, impetuous, energetic Pan Chaoying, director of the influential Catholic Social Welfare newspaper chain in China, let out an anti-Russian blast. Thundered Pan: "According to the Sino-Soviet Treaty of 1945, China and Russia should respect each other's sovereignty and territory. But Russia hasn't kept her word...
...list of high salaries made public last week by the Securities & Exchange Commission, the name of Harry W. Bracy led all the rest. As a branch manager in Carbondale, Ill. (pop. 10,400) for Kroger Co. grocery chain, Bracy's pay for 1946 was $380,000, including a bonus of $355,733. Farther down on the list were his bosses: Charles M. Robertson, chairman of the board, $100,000; Joseph B. Hall, president, $72,308. Kroger Co. stated that Bracy's bonus was due in part to "his ability as a branch manager and in part to unusual...
...tall, middle-aged Harry Bracy sold Kroger his chain of some 30 Thrift Stores for $1,000,000. He took a vacation trip to New York, where his chief dissipation was a ride on a rubberneck bus. Then he went back to his one room and bath in Carbondale's Roberts Hotel. Kroger soon found that business in the former Thrift Stores territory was dropping off. The company called in Bracy, by then bored at separation from his beloved stores. He told Kroger: "Give me a salary plus percentage of sales and no limit." Kroger agreed and put Bracy...
...York's education commissioner, Stoddard pushed through a $3,000,000 bill to set up a chain of junior colleges. Stoddard considers them the likeliest answer to a ticklish problem in a democracy: what to do with students who don't belong in college or can't get in, but still need more schooling. He also campaigned-unsuccessfully-for a New York state university...
July 1945. It is that a chain reaction is possible and that it can be used to make a bomb. . . . Can another country make an atomic bomb? Of course it can. . . . The real secret is that there is no basic secret...