Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This comes from a network whose president not many months ago brandished an accusing finger at American broadcasters for permitting advertising excesses and thereby contributing to "bad radio." Yet, I'affaire Shirer--the most dangerous form of advertising excess--is excused in an offhand manner by that same radio chain...
Bucking serious competition in the form of a Red Cross campaign, 150 student soliciters were termed by Campbell "solely responsible for the sucess of the drive." He pointed out that the weak link in the collections chain was the mailed requests, and that "if we had it to do over again, we would solicit every member of the University personally...
Next day Lieut. Governor Oscar Rennebohm, 57, was sworn in as acting governor. A wealthy, self-made man who built a bankrupt drug store into a prosperous chain, he is a political neophyte. He owns a palatial, 14-room house overlooking Lake Mendota, during the summer spends most of his spare time on his 175-acre dairy farm. He is closely associated with the G.O.P. machine. Said Boss Coleman: "He will serve the state very well...
...deric Joliot-Curie, France's High Commissioner of Atomic Energy, claimed that making atomic bombs was as easy as rolling off a neutron. His recipe, in United Nations World magazine: "Imagine a sphere of Uranium 235 large enough to be susceptible to explosive chain reaction. Now divide it into two hemispheres each below the 'critical mass.' Place these ... at the two ends of a cylindrical tube. One hemisphere is fixed, the other mobile, so that an explosive charge . . . can cause it to slide swiftly into contact with the other. . . . When the two hemispheres come together, the conditions...
Taste Without Purpose. The Examiner's exclusive story, carefully edited by the Chief himself, read like a chapter out of an authorized biography of the patriarch of U.S. chain journalism. To set the stage, it went back to W.R.'s dear, dead Harvard days: "If anything, the young Hearst had more of a potential than his fellows. Back of him were an unequaled upbringing, a connoisseur's taste. . . . But, by his own admission, the tall, blond and very elegant heir to mining millions lacked a purpose...