Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month Tom Stokes's conscience drove him to a remarkable decision: he insisted that his column be dropped by the Scripps-Howard chain, which started to syndicate him two years ago. Like Westbrook Pegler and the late Heywood Broun, Stokes had-or thought he had-an acute case of Scripps-Howard trouble...
...recent months, Roy Howard's New York World-Telegram, key link in the chain, had frequently killed the Stokes column. The days when he was dropped, he noted, were usually days when he and the paper's editorial policy (hard-a-star-board Republican) disagreed...
With the signing of this deal, Connie Hilton wound up a year-end whirl which had added Nos. 13, 14 and 15 to his $80,000,000 chain...
...round Bill Karzas more furiously than ever. Cracked one: "Everybody in the business is making love to the guy." Reason: Bill Karzas, branching out of Chicago for the first time, had just plunked down $1,500,000 to buy three more Midwest ballrooms† hoped soon to have a chain from coast to coast...
...restaurant. When they had accumulated $6,000 they sold out and bought a Chicago nickelodeon. On $125,000 in profits, they built Chicago's first "de luxe" movie house, the Woodlawn, in 1917. Two years later they sold the Woodlawn and two smaller theaters to the Balaban & Katz chain...