Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Denmark's tiny army, a link in NATO's northern anchor chain, was shaken last week by ugly spasms of mutiny. On strategic Bornholm Island, 200 draftees went on a disobedience strike, called on "all watches to leave their posts." At Holbaek on Zealand Island, 300 men refused to eat their rations, and bought hot dogs instead. Worst of all, a batch of 100 conscripts from the 9th Regiment of the King's Own Foot Guards set off for Copenhagen on a protest march. Other malcontents were prepared to join them on the way to the capital...
...Spyros Markezinis. at 44, is the new force in Greek government. A onetime palace lawyer and minor resistance leader who worked hard for the return of King George II, he served as Papagos' chief deputy when the Greek Rally Party was in opposition. In his office he chain-smokes gold-initialed cigarettes and chain-drinks Turkish coffee, talks cheerfully, optimistically and incessantly. One of Greece's chess masters, he plays a brilliant, passionate, impatient game. Two years ago he spoke hardly a word of English ; last week he rattled off a fine-sounding sentence: "We shall be obliged...
...Billion Dollar Club of U.S. Corporations last week welcomed a new member. In 1952, for the first time, the sales of Kroger Grocery Co. topped $1 billion, and its earnings rose from $9,000,000 to $12 million. Kroger's chain of 1,891 stores in 19 Midwest states thus became the 26th U.S. company with annual sales of more than $1 billion...
...tenth anniversary of the first chain reaction in an atomic pile was celebrated...
...Schweppshire Lad. By 1940 Hooper had succeeded Woolton as managing director of Lewis's, Ltd., Woolton's chain of department stores in northern England. In 1942 Hooper quit. "It was very rejuvenating, I thought, to chuck it all in the bag at 50 and start something new," Hooper explains. The something new was to mix in Tory politics (at which he still worked closely with Woolton). He became public-relations director for the Ministry of Works, and later boss of Britain's veterans' resettlement program. He started his own firm of business consultants and, with Julian...