Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Howard Walter Florey, President of the Royal Society since 1960, shared the 1945 Nobel Prize with Chain of Germany and Fleming of England for the preparation of penicillin in concentrated form...
...Roberts, who have since married and moved to Boston. In the mean time, Orkin has founded Amazon Ace, a cross between Tarzan and the Lone Ranger. Syndicated only six weeks ago the Ace and "his faithful Indian com panion Bernard" have already spread from WCFL Chicago to a nationwide chain of 20 cities...
...hastily formed committee of Racine citizens in buying up its own shares in the market. Sharon Steel Corp. boosted its annual dividend from 60? to 80? a share to help fend off a tender offer by Honolulu Industrialist George W. Murphy. Julius Garfinckel & Co., the Washington-based retail chain that controls Manhattan's Brooks Bros., last year rebuffed a tender takeover attempt by Genesco, Maxey Jarman's shoe-and-clothing combine, after two court fights and a bitter exchange of public recriminations. Most often, the best defense is to reach for a friendlier hand. Battling a tender takeover...
...Unable to do much about the freeze, Grossman began hacking away at the costly cobwebs the company inherited when it was formed nine years ago by a merger of two of Britain's oldest brewers. Streamlining Watney's chain of 6,650 company-owned pubs, he shut down those serving only 100 or so regular tipplers, opened new ones in more populous areas. Crossman has also converted many pubs into "Schooner Inns," which serve $1.40 steak dinners and sell a "terrific amount of liquor...
Next stop is the U.S., where Watney-Mann plans to get the first of a chain of franchised pubs in operation this year. This time Watney's will look upon its move as more of a comeback than an invasion, since Grossman claims that the sands of the Old West are still laced with British beer bottles left over from frontier days...