Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week: "Where is there a house in which the orchestra plays from scores that carry the personal annotations of Mahler, Richard Strauss and Herbert von Karajan? Where is there a house where each stagehand and stage technician has undergone an apprenticeship under masters whose teachers themselves form an uninterrupted chain through four generations? And where else is there a house where ushers greet each lady or gentleman by saying 'Küss" die Hand [I kiss your hand]' with a deference that dates straight back to the Imperial days...
Subject to Audit. On the surface, the business looks healthy. Chains have little trouble filling beds with Medicare-Medicaid patients. Southern California's Beverly Enterprises, one of the biggest chains, in six years has opened 27 homes, and its revenues have climbed from $3.2 million in 1967 to $17.4 million last year. Some chains have ambitious expansion plans. Four Seasons Nursing Centers of America, a 40-home Oklahoma chain that has grossed more than $6,000,000 in fiscal 1968, is negotiating to borrow $45 million to promote a home franchising program. Still other companies have shown enough growth...
...Gulf & Western, cast covetous eyes at Prince's Armour. Secretly manipulating his pawns on Wall Street, Bluhdorn acquired almost 10% of Armour before Billy could blink. In the nick of time, an ally, the Trustbusters, came to Billy's rescue and went after Bluhdorn with mace and chain. Bluhdorn wisely sold his interest in Armour to another power, General Host, whose ruler, iron-willed Richard Pistell, also coveted Prince's realm. Pistell offered Billy's shareholders a chance to trade Armour stock...
...Another Eckerd Drug chain in Delaware is still run independently by relatives...
Beate Uhse, a 49-year-old blonde, has built a mail-order house and chain of supermarkets into one of the fastest-growing retail businesses in West Germany...