Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover story [Aug. 30] on civil rights, I think it is time somebody stood up for the poor, abused, white bigots. In pressing for their constitutional guarantees, the Negro community has every moral and legal right to sit-in, swim-in, wade-in, waitin, parkin, standin, lie-in and chain-in, but they have gone too far with the pray...
...than 25 industrial-design competitions at Chicago's 1933 exposition, he won 22. When a Balaban & Katz movie theater offered to spend $5,000 on drapery and upholstery, Pereira remodeled the entire theater for the same price. Later, Barney Balaban gave him $18 million worth of work on the chain's theaters...
...well aware of its expanded powers. In the Brown Shoe case, the Supreme Court last year dealt a blow to corporate lawyers who thought that antitrust action could be directed only against a large concentration of power. It ruled that a merger between Brown and the Kinney retail shoe chain had to be broken up because it might result in restraint of trade-even though it involved only 5% of the U.S. shoe business. Last June the court went further and ruled that two Philadelphia banks could not merge because they would control more than 30% of the city...
...wove it together from four smaller houses in 1941. It helped in the long campaign to regain the public's trust in the financial community by putting its salesmen on flat salaries, eliminating carrying charges on accounts, and pioneering in informative advertising. When Mike McCarthy, a former grocery-chain consultant, took over as managing partner in 1957, he found the firm's old partnership setup as unwieldy as its name. He revamped Merrill Lynch into an incorporated brokerage house whose stock is now divided among 419 shareholders, the majority of whom are officers or employees. Last year...
...around the $20.3 billion-a-month mark, a remarkably steady performance but still not good enough for the chart watchers, who have come to depend so much on the consumer's performance. "They expect each week to be a new world," says the chief economist of a nationwide chain...