Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Michael's birth; his stepfather is a grocery-chain manager. His first walk-on part was as lead choirboy in a processional at St. Paul's Cathedral "because I looked such a cherub. I would just mime the words." He dropped out of school at 15, toured as a boy soprano in Benjamin Britten's Let's Make an Opera. His real education came from performing in 500 radio playlets for the BBC's "School Broadcasts...
Inflated Claims. Even the most reputable insurers have some deep-rooted problems. The nation's growing number of autos means more and more accidents. Moreover, chain-reaction smashups involving dozens of cars have become increasingly common. And because of the rising cost of repairs and medical care, individual claims also are getting bigger. Claims are further inflated because many accident victims-backed up by sympathetic juries-seem to be convinced that insurance companies have money to burn. Some of the claimants connive with their doctors, lawyers and garagemen to pad their bills. John Mahoney, New England claims manager...
...unloading them on five other collectors and seven dealers for $165,800. Among those who bought from Stein were Colonel Edgar Garbisch, a leading collector of American primitives, who paid $14,000 for an unpretentious little Picasso for his wife's dressing room, and the E.J. Korvette discount chain...
First Bet. Once limited mostly to a chain of "Post House" eateries located at some of its terminals, the company's non-bus operations are growing with greyhound speed. While transportation revenue has grown by 21% since 1962, Greyhound's other businesses have nearly quadrupled, last year accounted for 26% of Greyhound's record $546 million income and $47 million profit...
...that venture, Ackerman called in Trautman, then a San Francisco lawyer, set him to reorganizing Greyhound as a holding company. In quick succession, Greyhound picked up an industrial catering company that feeds workers at General Motors, hospitals and other institutions, a Manhattan fire and casualty insurance company, a Southeastern chain of restaurants and gas stations. It bought Travelers Express Co., the U.S.'s second largest money-order firm (after American Express) in 1965, last year set up an $85 million computer-renting subsidiary. Greyhound is even in bus building, set up Motor Coach Industries Ltd. in Winnipeg, Canada, three...