Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There comes a day when people begin to say, 'Why doesn't that old duffer retire?' I want to get out while they're still saying that Astaire is a hell of a dancer." Henceforth, he will probably produce movies and open a chain of schools...
Whether Brooklyn wins or loses this week's playoffs, Dodger fans have a really rosy future to contemplate during the long winter months. The twelve-club farm chain collected by President Branch Rickey is busting with young talent. Most likely to succeed: Negro Jackie Robinson...
...only a few blocks from his office, in a small Park Avenue apartment cluttered with hunting prints, a 1,000-volume sporting library, piles of personal scrap books. He also has a 475-acre farm outside Ithaca, N.Y. He very seldom touches liquor, favors lemonade. His only vice is chain-smoking. To match his thinking, the cigarets are king-sized...
...Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. of America, largest U.S. retail food chain, is a monopoly. So a Federal judge in Danville, Ill. decided last week: after 89 days in court listening to 200 witnesses, 30,000 pages of testimony, and inspecting 5.000 documentary exhibits. In his 117-page decision, Judge Walter C. Lindley said: A. & P. was guilty of conspiring "to monopolize a substantial part" of the country's food business. Also guilty: twelve A. & P. subsidiaries and 16 officers, including President John A. Hartford and his brother, Board Chairman George Hartford...
...also made much of the fact that A. & P. used the profits from non-retail operations to cut down its retail prices. This, said the Government, made it virtually impossible for less integrated retailers to compete. But A. & P. argued that it was only making use of the usual chain-store economies to offer consumers lower prices. If that was a crime (and the court ruled that it was) then every other chain store and large industrial company which reduced prices by integrating its operations was equally guilty. (Indictments, almost identical with the one returned against A. & P., have already...