Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time Adam got to the Salinas Valley, he had done two hitches in the Army, bummed around the country as a tramp, escaped from a Florida chain gang. and picked up a lot of humility. He also brought to California half his father's considerable fortune and Cathy, a beautiful blonde wife...
...Life-modeled magazine went on the stands, the press run of 750,000 copies was sold out before noon. Within six months its circulation soared to more than 1,600,000. Under Editor Tom Hopkinson, Picture Post became a valuable property in Publisher Edward Hulton's* chain (Lilliput, Farmers Weekly, Housewife). Hopkinson skillfully blended sex, crime and sports features with campaigns against appeasement of Hitler and British unemployment. During World War II, Picture Post's picture coverage was Britain's best, and after the war it was responsible for such exposes as the government's blundering...
...trouble came mostly from Republicans who have been in opposition so long that they fall naturally into critical attitudes. Early in the week, the 19 newspapers of the Scripps-Howard chain, in a front-page editorial headlined: IKE, WHEN DO WE START?, clamored for a fighting attack on the Truman Administration. "Ike," said the editorial, "is running like a dry creek...
Grocery supermarkets stole a leaf from the dime stores when they began stocking their shelves with such traditional dime-store items as buttons, cosmetics and toothpaste. Last week, the nation's biggest dime-store chain snatched back. Near Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town, an apartment-city of some 26,000 inhabitants, F. W. Woolworth opened a self-service store where shoppers picked prepriced wares from clerkless counters, supermarket fashion, toted them in fabric baskets to wrapping and checkout counters. Customers seemed to like it, said they saved time by not having to wait for a salesgirl. Woolworth, which finds...
...drops" ("which render a man unconscious for 24 hours"), 2) Benzedrine, 3) a quick-action poison for suicide. But the spycatcher may also be fairly certain that, apart from his pills, "every spy carries something incriminating either on his person or in his luggage." If he wears a watch & chain, for example, each jewel and metal segment of the watch, each link of the chain, must be microscopically examined for ciphers. All his cigarettes must be tested for invisible writing, all the tobacco sifted...