Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Times, a 1920 seven-passenger Fierce-Arrow was advertised for $2,500 v. $7,250 when new. Many oldsters were worth more than ever. A completely rebuilt 1904 Cadillac went on sale for $6,500 v. $900 new. And a fully restored 1910 Simplex raceabout, with double-chain drive and 90-h.p. engine, was offered for a thumping $9,500 v. about...
...glittering seven-story building, white-cupolaed and monumental with pillars, fitted out inside with tiles and marble, English oak paneling, elevators, and hot-air blowers (instead of towels) in the lavatories. It cost $1,700,000-more than two-thirds of it from the pocket of British Chain Store Tycoon Isaac Wolf son-and the dedication ceremony was appropriate for a building that aspires to be the new center of religious law for all the world's Orthodox Jews...
...Small cars may be Detroit's answer to the recession," Manhattan's Longchamps restaurants proclaimed last week. "Ours is A LARGER WHISKEY GLASS." So saying, in three of its restaurants the twelve-restaurant chain trotted out 864 new shot glasses, each delivering an extra ⅜ oz. of spirits for the old, prerecession price (85?). Longchamps' long shot was not in the dark; a test run with the new glasses boosted liquor sales 5% in one restaurant...
...home place or repairing the barn), but it has brought a flock of new civic improvements in progress, e.g., three new schools, a $200,000 bowling alley and amusement center. Two years ago Oskaloosa, hungry for an industry payroll to offset the setbacks to farming, almost landed an American Chain & Cable Co. plant, but at the last minute lost out. Putting its finger on the reason, the Iowa Development Commission said: "Poor community attitude." Last week a commission pulse-feeler passed through, asked a workman in overalls what he now thought of Oskaloosa. "Best damned town in Iowa," the workman...
SALES LEAD among U.S. department stores went to 42-link Federated chain (Bloomingdale's of Manhattan, Abraham & Straus of Brooklyn, Filene's of Boston). Federated edged Allied Stores for first time, $635 million to $632 million in 1957, earned $25 million to Allied's $12.3 million...