Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brookhaven, L.I., a dragline excavator manned by a nuclear physicist broke ground last week for the first chain-reacting pile to be built in the U.S. in peacetime.* Financed by a $10 million Government appropriation, it will be the heart of the great Brookhaven National Laboratory, to be built by the U.S. as a common experiment center for the nuclear scientists of Eastern universities. Other atomic giants will soon cluster around it: cyclotrons, synchrotrons, a Van de Graaff electrostatic generator-all the monstrous machines of the Atomic...
Since the first Howard Johnson restaurant was built in Quincy, Mass. 18 years ago, 225 more white-walled, orange-tiled units of the chain have sprung up along main highways from Maine to Florida. Last week, tall, hefty Howard Johnson announced plans to widen out. Already under construction (near Dayton, Columbus and Cincinnati) were the first of 200 new branches that will carry his name, his ice cream (28 flavors) and his own brand of New England decor across the Middle West and into California...
...comforting to the British film industry. In London, an associate of J. Arthur Rank, Britain's foremost producer and largest exhibitor, admitted it was the first time he "had seen the boss really worried." A shortage of U.S. films could starve Rank's movie houses (the Odeon chain) and force them either to close down or run "classics" before dwindling audiences. (Of the 300 new pictures which British movie houses require each year, only about 80 could be produced at home...
Emotional Storms. Doctors have long been aware that certain types of hypertension (high blood pressure) are connected with kidney disturbances. They have also observed that anger or other emotional storms may raise blood pressure. What the Trueta group demonstrated was the physiological chain of events that leads to hypertension. And they showed that the hitherto unexplained form of high blood pressure known as "essential hypertension," which accounts for 95% of all cases, stems from the kidneys...
...store mushroomed into a chain of seven with the help of his folksy stunts. He held annual breakfasts for grandmothers, sponsored school essays and let winners come to dinner with Bob Herberger and boss one of his departments for a day. He also had a deft touch with employees. He bought each one a cake on his birthday, gave brief parties in the store and held ten-minute get-togethers each morning to plan selling strategy. Bob's technique paid off: his St. Cloud store sells 3½ times the national average per square foot for stores...