Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state supreme court handed down a decision that merchants who had not signed such agreements could disregard them. Fair-trade lobbyists said the decision was meaningless because it applied to injunctions which had been issued prior to the new 1952 federal law. Some Jersey merchants thought otherwise. The big chain of Kings Super Markets (20 stores) immediately started cutting fair-traded prices...
...Chain Reaction. The copper rise set off a chain reaction. Brass producers raised their prices to keep pace. Auto-parts makers warned Detroit that they would have to revise their price lists. The price of artillery shells, bomb fuses and many another military item bought by the Defense Department was sure to go up. Were these sudden price increases an abuse? In the case of copper producers, it scarcely seemed so. The profits of the coppermen have been dwindling, squeezed between higher labor costs and the ceilings. Moreover, at a time when domestic producers have been frozen...
...blacked out, the Raman scraped a pier, narrowly missed ramming a smaller vessel, and set off down the River Weser with the tightly lashed tugboat still bumping at her side. At a sharp bend in the channel, the Raman neatly dropped anchor in the darkness, pirouetted about the anchor chain, then hoisted anchor and headed for the open sea, 50 miles downstream. The five crewmen scrambled up from the tugboat and cut it adrift. Belching black smoke, the Raman gathered speed while her captain, Rifat Onder, turned a cold. Nelson-like eye to every signal to halt. From the docks...
...newcomer to Westinghouse, Price's biggest worry was whether or not he could win the respect of the old hands. For a while it seemed a question whether he would lick the job or it would lick him. He chain-smoked cigars, often 20 a day. He developed ulcers worrying whether he could make good in an industry completely new to him. Price whipped his ulcers, grew assured enough not to mind the jokes about his mechanical ignorance, and cut down his smoking...
...modern English ghost stories in this anthology do not have the shudder value of the old bloody-head and clinking-chain school. Instead of haunting damp Ruddigorean castles, most contemporary ghosts seem to have settled into fashionable flats, where they play hob with the call bells and the central heating. Moreover, the authors in Editor Asquith's collection have adulterated an old-fashioned art form with Freudian complexes and social crisis; they have forgotten that the one thing a ghost story does not need is a rational explanation...