Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With darkness came the grim task of getting the U.S. dead and wounded out of a sky-clotting jungle roof 250 feet high, impossible for helicopters to penetrate. The Airborne called for a chain saw and some C-4 high explosive to cut and blast a landing zone the next day. Meanwhile the most seriously wounded were hoisted through the trees in wire baskets by rescue choppers hovering overhead. At first light next morning, seven more chain saws attacked the jungle, and at 10 a.m. the clearing was big enough for one MEDEVAC chopper at a time to flutter down...
...husband lives; another will argue that she is entitled to personal property for her private use. In the view of one lenient rabbi, the Sabbath was made for man; another will demand the strict observance of so many Sabbath regulations that they seem, says a Talmudic sage, "like a chain of mountains hanging on a hair." Only by years of study can Talmudic scholars learn how to make the subtle distinction between an authoritative opinion and an erroneous one, and how to correctly apply the wisdom of the past to the problems of the present...
...West Coast switcher is Maxwell Wihnyk, who in 1947 bought a small weekly in the desert community of Beaumont, Calif., and built it into a profitable chain of seven papers. "One morning in 1961," he recalls, "I woke up and realized that the papers I owned weren't providing me with satisfaction." Wihnyk was fascinated by courtrooms, decided that he had "seen hundreds of lawyers who weren't doing as good a job as I thought I could do." So, at 48, he sold his papers, joined his daughter as a student at U.C.L.A. Now an attorney, Wihnyk...
...franchised and 72 company-owned stores. Last week Household moved into merchandising on a major scale. It arranged a stock-swap deal to acquire City Products Corp., an Illinois conglomerate that controls 3,020 retail outlets through its Ben Franklin and T.G. & Y. variety stores, its Barker Bros, furniture chain and a food-chain supply house...
...then, did the loan firm want City Products? Household's bluff, $168,704-a-year president, Harold E. MacDonald, 65, who spent 22 years in retailing, figures that the same talents that enable H.F.C. to merchandise small loans so successfully will work to produce profits in retail chain merchandising. Since he took over the 87-year-old finance company in 1951, MacDonald has tightened up operations, spruced up offices and standardized procedures so much that 37% of H.F.C.'s revenues so far this year has become pretax profit...