Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Treasure Trove. Near Atlanta, Charles H. Farmer spotted something shiny on a creek bottom, dove in, came up with 1) a rhinestone pin, 2) a gold locket, 3) a string of pearls, 4) a gold watch chain, 5) crystal beads, 6) a Zipper shaving...
...walkout immediately blocked some 5,000 long-distance trucks which daily rumble into the metropolitan area with much of the city's food, manufacturing and mercantile supplies. Strike leaders promised to keep food and essential drug supplies moving, but in many cases drivers refused to haul food to chain stores, most of whose shelves were almost empty...
...Dear Mr. Putrilluh." But New Yorkers did not share the Peglerian appetite for musicless meals. Business dropped in Manhattan's huge, noise-deadened ballrooms. Out-of-town affiliates of struck New York hotels were hit by sympathy walkouts. Chicago's Palmer House, part of the Hilton chain, bravely put on its Empire Room show without an orchestra. The handful of customers groaned...
...York Times, Herald Tribune and leftist PM applauded solemnly. Manhattan newsstands sold out early on publication day. Showman Lee Shubert tried to get the dramatic rights. In Princeton, N.J., the mayor asked all citizens to read the piece. Knopf planned to publish it as a book. A radio chain wanted Paul Robeson, Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, and Katharine Cornell to take turns reading the 53-page article on the air. Only one dissenting note was heard: a reader in Brooklyn sent back his copy, saying he had read enough about the atom bomb. He was dismissed as crotchety...
Chaucer's Wife of Bath seems as rosy and real-and surprising-a person to most readers as a vaudeville queen in a broken-down daisy chain. Last week the lusty Wife and all her fellow travelers went on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery...