Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mackinac Island, Mich., last week were 2,000 self-supporting women. Members of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, they discussed their problems between speeches and ballotings. Mrs. Ora H. Snyder, Chicago, head of a chain of candy stores, had opportunity to compare business methods with Miss Elsie Flake, "sandwich queen" of Winston-Salem, N. C. Miss Marion McClench, prime insurance saleswoman of Detroit, could talk shop with Miss Ella Schroeder, successful diamond merchant of Cincinnati. Tampa's Postmistress Elizabeth Rainard had a look at Miss Emma Coldiron of Walla Walla, Wash., operator...
...young zealot with the build of a lumberman, was merely propagandizing for his cause. Afterward he became secretary of the famed "Flying Squadron," a Prohibition-boosting committee which in 1914-15 visited and pleaded in each & every state. He enjoys a close Dry friendship with Chain Storeman James Cash Penney, friend of Prohibition and of President Hoover, publisher of the Christian Herald, interdenominational weekly of which Dr. Poling is editor-in-chief...
...Radio Corp. can (and doubtless will) do to "plug" (exploit) its entertainers. Example: Rudy Vallee, singer and orchestra leader, will soon be seen and heard in a Radio talkie. He can make Radio-Victor records of the featured songs. He can broadcast them over National Broadcasting Co.'s chain of 53 stations (N. B. C. is 50% owned by Radio Corp.). He can appear at RKO theatres. Cinema, radio, phonograph, vaudeville-Radio Corp. is very much in them...
When Marie of Rumania made her famed U. S. tour (1926), Her Majesty was scheduled to appear over the National Broadcasting Co.'s chain. She was to give one of her many endorsements. Temperamental, she at first attempted to call off her appearance, then arrived at the studio a half-hour before her time, indignantly departed when informed that she could not immediately go on the air. Radio men, including Mr. Sarnoff, followed her to Manhattan's Ambassador, argued earnestly, then acidly. When it was pointed out that Her Majesty was accustomed to having her will accepted...
...another disturbance of the rail status quo, and again the movement was pro-Pennsylvania and anti-Baltimore & Ohio. The Wabash Railway proposed a plan which aimed at creating a 7,044-mile system with the 2,400-mile Wabash as a nucleus. Major links in the proposed Wabash chain were the Pittsburgh & West Virginia, Wheeling & Lake Erie, Western Maryland, Lehigh Valley. The Wabash plan clashes with the Baltimore & Ohio plan (TIME, March 4) at almost every conceivable point. In the first place, the Wabash itself was the most vital unit in the proposed greater and longer B. & O. From...