Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chain Reaction. In Beverly Hills, Mo., the Leslie Whites had a loud weekend: first, a quart jar of gooseberry preserves blew up; next, three cans of date pudding; finally, a gallon jug of gasoline, which touched off a hundred 12-gauge shotgun shells, a thousand .22 cartridges...
...were singing the outlawed national anthem Deutschland über Alles, knocking hats off Mitbürger who kept their heads covered during the singing. The crowd yelled: "We're not Indians, not coolies, we must be treated like Germans." Other slogans repeated the contents of numerous anti-Semitic chain letters which have been making the rounds of the city recently. Shouts of "Gott Strafe England!" finally aroused British military police to arrest ten youths, one woman...
...Army plans to invest some $90 million, a third of it in basic research. An additional $40 million of the Army's Manhattan District (nuclear) funds are earmarked for research. By last week the District was well along in arrangements for a chain of regional laboratories across the nation. Biggest: the Argonne Laboratory near Chicago, headed by 39-year-old Physicist Walter Henry Zinn. The University of Chicago, the Mayo Clinic and 22 other Midwest institutions will help run Argonne via an advisory board, will use it as a center for research in nuclear physics, biochemistry and other fields...
...with Walgreen's. A chain of such stores has been the dream of United's energetic, athletic president, Justin Whitlock Dart, 38, ever since he was started in the drug business by Charles R. Walgreen Sr., then his father-in-law. He soon proved that his job did not depend on nepotism. Over the objections of fellow executives, he busily rearranged the interiors of Walgreen drugstores, showed that it was just as important to put an article in the right place in a store as to put the right things in the manufacture of the article. Sample change...
Independent druggists disliked the way the company sold them its own manufactured products (candy, bandages, drugs, etc.) with one hand and set up competing chain stores with another. Dart calmed the independents by closing some of his weaker competing chain stores and offering independents the benefit of United's mass purchasing power. Last week Dart carried this plan even further. He put the 10,000 independent Rexall stores, which hold exclusive franchises for United's products, on an equal footing with the company-owned chain stores. United will now help finance the expansion programs of any affiliated druggists...