Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chain of Prerequisites...
TEXAS CITY, TEX., April 16--A terrific chain of ship and waterfront explosions blasted hundreds of persons to death today and injured more than...
...fumbling hands of Scripps's grandsons, Ed and Jim (it was never a part of the Scripps-Howard chain), the Star became the third daily in a town whose advertisers really needed only two. In hand-to-mouth depression days, its underpaid editors* never knew how final their final edition might be. To keep their minds off impending doom, they used to fire BB shot from slingshots at customers entering the palmistry parlors and bordellos across Seventh Avenue...
...settled down at Coos Bay, a busy lumber town on Oregon's southern coast, where he began saving for his present big expansion, largely financed by Cleveland Newspaper Broker Smith Davis. Sackett decided that his chain would be "owned by the men who run it, run by the men who own it." The motto will appear on the masthead of the Seattle Star, and Sackett's employees will "eventually" hold (but may not bequeath) 49% of the stock. The new boss said airily that he was out to "restore the press to the people." Seattle would be satisfied...
...porcine linguists hailed this as the first step in the formation of an all-College chain...