Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chain of army mutinies that rocked East Africa like an earthquake had its epicenter in Zanzibar, where bloody revolution sent shock waves rumbling up and down the Great Rift. Before the aftershocks subsided, the British Commonwealth governments of Tanganyika, Uganda and Kenya had been severely shaken...
...tiny island 22½ miles off the coast where the region's troubles had all begun two weeks ago. Though there appeared to be no active, political connection between the mainland mutinies and Zanzibar's new leftist regime, it seemed that the island violence had flashed like chain lightning across the Zanzibar Channel. "It's like prison riots," said an experienced U.S. official. "When one explodes, the others begin...
...Commerce ("what a farce"). He got interested in the nascent radio business only when, as the boss's restless young son, he discovered that La Palina could sell a spectacular number of stogies by plugging them over the air. In 1928, 27-year-old Bill Paley bought a chain of 16 wobbly Eastern radio stations for $400,000 and renamed them the Columbia Broadcasting System...
While Sears President Crowdus Baker concentrates on building catalogue sales (26% of total volume) with added outlets and faster deliveries, Cushman is working to strengthen a weakness in Sears's domestic chain: the 13-state Eastern region that generates 40% of all U.S. retail sales. Long dominant in the Midwest, Sears has rebuilt some Eastern stores and opened many new ones, is erecting a mammoth distribution center in Secaucus, N.J., to service them. Meanwhile, capitalizing on its Latin American experience, Sears next year will open stores in Madrid and Barcelona, use Spain as a wedge into the Common Market...
...from the Garden. With a fortune approaching $300 million, Irving dominates much of the Maritimes. He owns the biggest hardware chain in the region, the public transit system in Saint John, 1,700,000 acres of woodlands, several mines, a steel fabricating plant, a shipyard, 16 tankers and 2,000 service stations that blazon the Irving name in red, white and blue from Newfoundland to Quebec. Almost everyone in New Brunswick has strong feelings-pro or con-about K. C. Irving. But he has so effectively walled himself from the public that few really know...