Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Methodist, like his late multimillionaire father who had made a fortune in. the flour-milling industry in Great Britain, Rank entered the film business to produce religious shorts. But in ten years he has become the most successful producer in England, head of the United Kingdom's biggest chain of movie theaters, and as a result of a deal made last year, exchanges films with 20th Century-Fox Film Corp...
...with the French-a deal that may leave Hollywood, which before the war was allowed to exhibit only a limited number of pictures a year in France, still further out in the cold. Visiting Canada, where a year ago he bought a half interest in the 110-theater Odeon chain, Rank let it be known through one of his aides (he seldom speaks for himself) that he would build 50 more theaters in Canada to compete with Hollywood's outlets and perhaps a "showcase theater" in New York, also that this week he would visit the U.S., "just...
...wholesale grocery business, which a few years ago was being rapidly encroached upon by chain stores, this process has been productive. It now supports his apartment overlooking Lake Michigan from the 21st floor of the Drake Tower Apartments - with semicircular modern couches, a glass-enclosed "garden," a dining room lighted from a cylinder under its glass-topped table...
...with Sprague, Warner for sales. Consolidated's various divisions include canners. manufacturers, importers, exporters and distributors of foods-its different branches maintaining their sales autonomy. And with his new consolidation, about twice the size of any comparable wholesale grocery firm five years ago, he plans to buck the chain stores still further by giving his customers merchandising and sales help...
Died. William Kennon ("Hello World") Henderson, 74, onetime owner of Shreveport's radio station KWKH (formed from his own initials), who once made U.S. airways blue with his frequent harangues against chain-stores and Her bert Hoover ; of a heart attack ; in Shreveport, La. An admirer and intimate of the late Huey Long, Radioman Henderson made one of the loudest noises in early broadcasting (until depression and chain-broadcasting squeezed him out) ; as a side line sold lucky listeners his photograph and a 1-lb. can of "Hello World" coffee...