Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...factory worker from Festus, Mo. (pop. 5,199) made medico-legal history last week by suing four cigarette manufacturers and a grocery chain for $250,000. Ira C. Lowe, 39, filed his suit in St. Louis blaming them for the cancer which caused him to lose a lung...
...right lung was removed at the very time when, at nearby Barnes Hospital, Drs. Evarts Graham and Ernest Wynder were doing experiments on mice with tobacco tar (TIME, Nov. 30). In suing (for breach of warranty) the four companies whose brands he said he had smoked and the chain store where he bought them,* Lowe said that he had "accepted the defendants' public assurances that their cigarettes were free from harmful substances...
...British officers grilled the condemned man for 68 hours and concluded that he was probably speaking the truth. In cast-iron secrecy (Kenya Governor Sir Evelyn Baring did not even tell his superiors in Whitehall), the death sentence was commuted, and China smuggled out of jail. The ball and chain were removed from his leg, the ball was placed in a metal money box which was handcuffed to China's wrist, and, disguised as a policeman, he was flown to Nyeri to communicate with the Mau Mau gangs...
University Police Chief Matthew J. Toohey, working on the cased with Cambridge Police Sergeant James F. Murphy, said last night that last week's $200 Thayer hall robbery was apparently "one in a chain of robberies" in the last three months...
...controls an empire estimated at upwards of $300 million ; Richardson's wealth is even believed by some to be greater than that of Texan H. L. Hunt, estimated at $500 million or more. He owns a Texas City refinery, a string of cattle ranches, a radio and television chain, a drugstore chain, and, with Texas Publisher Amon G. Carter, the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth...