Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...affair, just a home-district celebration by Fall River's citizens to show homespun Speaker of the House Joe Martin "the pride and affection they feel in him by virtue of the high office he has attained." The plan had been conceived by William S. Canning, a movie-chain manager, a Democrat, and Fall River's most zealous booster. Canning was well aware that Joe had carried strongly Democratic Fall River only once in the last 22 years...
...educators and clergymen will try to help the magazine aim a little higher than its biggest rivals, the A & P's giant Woman's Day (circ. 3,000,000) and 15-year-old Family Circle (1,200,000), which is sold in Safeway and other chain stores. American Family, a new version of an idea Mullen tried during the war, will sugar-coat its articles on family problems with cartoons, recipes, fiction and gossip about celebrities...
Johnson will own few of the new places himself. Like the old restaurants, of which he owns only 52, most of the new ones will be backed by independent investors. They will be built and operated according to a restaurant-operating formula which Johnson credits for most of the chain's success...
...Johnson. Such tactics help operators and managers to keep service at a uniform, better-than-average level; in the past they have helped most backers to get their investment back within five years. The wartime ban on pleasure driving cut heavily into their business. But this year, the chain expects to gross nearly $32 million, about 200% more than prewar...
Like Grady and preceding political heads, Killion took over the job with no previous shipping experience. The only nautical note that reporters could find in his record was the name of his birthplace-Steamboat Springs, Colo. An ex-newspaperman and chain-store lobbyist, he got his first political job through a long-standing friendship with California's New Dealing Governor Culbert Levy Olson...