Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week the Lenin of Catalonia sat chain-smoking in a cell in Barcelona police headquarters. As an old hand at the game, he knew what came next. But at least he would die at the hands of those he had fought, not of those whom he had so long served...
...deal would give Webb & Knapp, which already controls $250 million in property (including Manhattan's Chrysler Building), and has operated in 30 states, one of the choice hotel systems in the world. Founded by the late E. M. Statler in Buffalo in 1908, the chain is now the third biggest (after Hilton, Sheraton) in the U.S., with eight hotels and two office buildings, in Boston, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Washington, New York and Los Angeles, worth $67 million. Having already built four of the seven major U.S. hotels put up in the last 25 years, the chain...
...started when Irv and Izzy decided that their lunch-counter customers might be in the mood for music. In the rear of their store, somewhere between notions and prescriptions, they put in a record department. That started an extraordinary chain reaction: the records sold faster than hot cakes, so the boys eased up on hot cakes and expanded the record department. As they found need for more room, the brothers set up separate Super Music City stores (three of them by now). When they did not have the right records to sell in their stores, they set up their...
...Condon. Condon is the former chief of the National Bureau of Standards (now director of research and development for Corning Glass Works), who got into a headline row in 1948 with a House investigating subcommittee after the subcommittee called him "one of the weakest links" in the U.S. security chain. Early in the atomic program, Oppenheimer got a job at the University of California Radiation Laboratory for a young physicist with a known Communist background, one Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz. In 1943 the Army notified Lomanitz that he was to be drafted. Dr. Condon wrote Oppenheimer about this, as Oppenheimer...
Kools: "Negative flaunting of the chain in front of face; the constant repetition stinks...