Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this point, Konopinski settled for the theorists a question that still bothers laymen who worry about chain reactions destroying the planet. "He proved that a thermonuclear reaction, even if initiated on the earth, could not spread under any circumstances. It was necessary to prove, and he did prove, that the 'super' bomb could not ignite the atmosphere or the ocean...
...Lawrence's World War I desert army against the Turks, pushed the treaty through Iraq's parliament. Turkey's National Assembly ratified it unanimously. Since Turkey is a member of NATO, Iraq became the first of the Arab League states to join the pro-Western chain of alliances...
...Brown, 43, was lured away from the James B. Beam Distilling Co. to become president of Park & Tilford Distillers Corp. He succeeds Arthur D. Schulte, who continues as chief executive officer in his new job as board chairman, vacant since the death (in 1949) of his father, Cigar-Store-Chain Founder David A. Schulte. A native New Yorker, Brown started selling shoes at 18, studied journalism in New York University night school, tried reporting for New York's Daily Mirror, went back to selling shoes, later became general merchandise manager for Chicago's Goldblatt Brothers department store...
...Philadelphia ceremony attended by Mayor Joseph S. Clark Jr. and other civic leaders last week, Sheraton Corp.'s President Ernest Henderson marked a notable corporation milestone. For the first time in its 16-year history, the world's second biggest hotel chain will build a hotel. The Philadelphia Sheraton, to be started this month, will be a $15 million, 900-room building faced in limestone, glass and metal ; it will be ready for occupancy by midsummer 1956. Construction will also start this month in New Haven on another new Sheraton, a 350-room hotel with...
President Henderson has expanded a three-hotel combine into a $165 million string of 31 hotels, by buying such stately old structures as Boston's Copley Plaza and San Francisco's Palace, changing their names and, by more efficient chain operations, their profit picture. His latest purchase, for $5,000,000: Los Angeles' Town House, which Conrad Hilton sold to Oilman Roy Crummer in 1953. (Hilton will continue operating it under Sheraton ownership until next October.) The results of Sheraton's expansion have been so good that a share of Sheraton stock bought...