Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Shaw, who was manager of the Famous Department Stores' West Coast chain before entering Government service, ended his stint in France with a blast at French industrialists. U.S. funds for the program, he told French officials, usually ended in the hands of the "enemies of productivity"-the powerful, price-fixing French trade associations. Summing up French reaction to the program, Shaw quoted an executive of a men's wear trade association that had accepted $228,000 to improve marketing and distribution: "We do not need you Americans. All we want is your money...
DEPARTMENT-STORE MERGER will push the Associated Dry Goods chain (1954 sales: $154.4 million) out to the West Coast. Associated, which now owns Manhattan's Lord & Taylor plus stores in Buffalo, Newark, Minneapolis, Baltimore and Louisville, will take over Southern California's J. W. Robinson Co. stores in a cash and stock deal...
...their lives joined the Communist Party, but very few talk about it now. Last week one did. He told the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee a shoddy tale of party membership in the U.S. and of spy service abroad on behalf of the Kremlin. As sometimes happens, he triggered a chain reaction of disclosures about other people. Almost all had been or were still connected with the business of reporting the news, like the witness himself: Winston Burdett, 41, now a $20,000-a-year Columbia Broadcasting System radio and TV commentator...
...years since the signing of the North Atlantic Pact, the world's free nations have forged a chain of defense alliances which extended eastward from the Bering Sea, across North America and Europe to Turkey, then resumed again in Southeast Asia. But in the Middle East, the chain fell short of ringing the globe...
...Chain of Evidence. In Bountiful, Utah, Town Marshal Turner Burningham investigated a theft of $351 from a city hall safe, declared suspect everyone who had a key to the building, remembered that he had a key himself, turned the investigation over to the county sheriff...