Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COOL HAND LUKE. Sadistic guards are unable to shake the sang-froid of a cocky chain-gang prisoner (Paul Newman), who wins the respect of hostile fellow prisoners, until he is finally beaten into groveling for mercy...
...Next day, apparently from other sources, London's Financial Times carried the news, and in Tulsa, Okla., station KRMG got its own report from Washington Correspondent Malvina Stephenson, who was tipped by House Majority Leader Carl Albert. KRMG fed the story to the Indian Nations Network, an Oklahoma chain whose dissemination of the story finally got things moving in Washington...
From Oxford to Oxford. The chain began in 1864, when John Lewis, a buyer of silk and dress materials, opened a shop in London's Oxford Street. Legend has it that his son Spedan, while checking the books one day, found the family was earning more than the entire roster of employees. He devised a profit-sharing scheme, and in 1929 started paying "partnership benefits" to all. With no common shares issued, about half the profits are paid out annually in bonuses and nonvoting shares to em ployees, amounting to about 15% of their salaries. Through councils in each...
Managers of many London department stores begin their week by checking their store's performance against the figures of the John Lewis chain of 16 stores scattered throughout Britain. What they see is usually discouraging. Only the fourth-largest company in department stores, but long the leader in profitability, John Lewis is doing better than ever...
...became necessary when he made his periodical visitations at Oxford Street for all red-haired girls to keep out of sight and all young men with incurable Oxford accents to put on their hats and walk about pretending to be customers." But the practice survived, and the chain's present chairman, scholarly Sir Bernard Miller, 63, started in the Oxford Street store's silk department after reading modern history at Oxford University...