Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week was announced the acquisition by Cinemagnate Fox of Loew's, Inc., and its producing subsidiary, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corp., bringing the estimated value of Fox holdings to $225,000,000. Almost immediately, Fox acquired two additional theatre chains controlling 113 houses: Walter Reade Enterprises (15) and Schine Chain Theatres (98). Total of Fox-owned theatres: nearly...
Brooklyn-Boston. Plans for the union of Abraham & Straus, Inc., Brooklyn's "biggest" department store and Wm. Filene's Sons Co. of Boston last week came to a head. Thus was forged another link in the chain begun when Jordan Marsh Co. and C. F. Hovey Co. entered the Hahn department store combine last December, and continued when Filene's absorbed R. H. White Co. soon after...
...Coolidge took a diamond and platinum brooch 1½ in. by 3½ in. on a 22-in. diamond and platinum chain, the whole containing nearly 400 diamonds (largest stone, five carats) made by Black, Starr & Frost; also a pink leather book containing the names of the lady admirers who presented the brooch (duplicate filed in the secret archives of the State Department) ; a large silver bowl and candlesticks presented by Lady Howard on behalf of the Diplomatic Corps, as wedding gifts for John Coolidge and Florence Trumbull; a check for $100,000 contributed to the endowment of Clarke School...
National Tea Co., (Piggly Wiggly and National Tea chain from coast to coast) net, $2,822,440. Previous...
...activities were great sport, kiddies. Peter found that you did nothing, but that the matters that needed attention were somehow attended to. And all the time there was the glory of being important. Countless little dangles hung from his watch chain and his name was on countless lips as well as often seen in the columns of the college paper. The dances were even better, for there he and his friends met all the nice girls. To Peter their conversation scintillated; it was ever so much more clever than his own. These girls really were clever, that was the wonderful...