Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gaps in the fence are being filled. On the East Coast a chain of some 25 radar stations, called Texas Towers because they resemble oil-drilling platforms in the Gulf off Texas, are to be anchored on the continental shelf up to 125 miles offshore. On both coasts flights of RC-121Cs, "Pregnant Geese", bulging with six tons of radar equipment, will soon maintain patrols around the clock. Canada is already building the mid-Canada line of small, semiautomatic, electronic-detection stations along the 55th parallel, about 500 miles north of the U.S. border...
...McCarthy HEARST CHAIN...
They have dropped more than that in profits. Last week only four of the seven* Manhattan dailies were making money. Operating in the red were the liberal Republican Herald Tribune; the hard-hitting Republican World-Telegram and Sun, flagship of the 19-paper Scripps-Howard chain; and the banner-lining Journal-American, home paper of William R. Hearst Jr.'s 16-paper chain. The august Times, the sassy News, the Fair-Dealing Post have been making money, and so, reportedly, has Hearst's tabloid Mirror. But all their profit margins are down...
...zeal once appealed to New York's immigrant population, but this formula no longer works so well. Though it has cut its staff to trim expenses and runs giveaway contests (Cashword Puzzles, Daily Double Racing Game, Lucky Safety Cards) to boost circulation, the Journal contributed to the Hearst chain's loss of $1,266,500 in the first nine months of 1954, the biggest deficit in the chain's history...
...Miami Beach sales were 6% above last year; in Los Angeles they were up 12% in some stores. Allied Stores Corp., biggest U.S. department-store chain (69 units), hopes to ring up $100 million in Christmas sales, 16% above last year. For the first time in its history Chicago's big Marshall Field had a million-dollar shopping day in November, as the Christmas season opened. In Boston, Kansas City. Seattle and 30 other major U.S. cities, the Commerce Department took a quick checkup, found Christmas buying running an average 5% ahead of last year...