Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SHERATON'S HOTEL CHAIN, which operated 27 hotels east of the Rockies (business: $64 million in the last fiscal year), is expanding to the West Coast. The $125 million chain has just laid out some $4,000,000 for Pasadena's Huntington Hotel, which says it is the West's biggest resort hotel...
...smokers (half a pack or less a day) also showed significantly higher death rates from both heart disease and cancer than nonsmokers, and that the increase includes all types of cancer, not only in the lung. Cigar and pipe smokers show no consistent increase in mortality. There is less chain-smoking of cigarettes in rural than urban areas, and the rural death rates from heart disease and cancer are lower...
...secretary of a tony country club on the Thames, went out for a quiet spin in his motor launch. As he churned along the rowing course at Henley, Sir Geoffrey came upon a strange sight. A slim figure was moving along the bank, methodically measuring with a length of chain. Peering through the grey English drizzle, Sir Geoffrey recognized Nikolai Kolosovsky, coxswain of the crack Russian Eight that was entered in the Henley Royal Regatta. "By gad," exploded Sir Geoffrey, "they're checking the course! These Russians! They are incredible-efficiency in the extreme." The Russian oarsmen...
Maritime Administration pays 40% of the cost.) The new Mariners, which contain many defense features, are expensive ($10.6 million apiece). But they can cruise at more than 22 knots, have chain belts for quick unloading...
...give a company room to grow, 4) make up for the cyclical swings of a market. For example, to offset the big fluctuations in basic steel production (now down 30% when all industry is down only 10%), Republic Steel diversified into such things as steel kitchen cabinets and chain...