Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carrying 20 bullets, lived for three hours after the shooting but gangland's curious code of honor sealed his lips against police proddings. Besides him, the only living thing in the garage when the slaughterers left was the Gusenbergs' police dog, a fierce animal raging on its chain...
...July 7 it was at 159⅞; Aug. 11, 199⅜; Sept. 15, 264; Oct. 13, 282. Then came rumors, followed by announcements, of chain store expansion, of a stock-split. Montgomery Ward skyrocketed. In the week ending Oct. 20, the stock climbed to 352, on Nov. 30 it reached its high for the year of 439⅞* Thus, during the year Montgomery Ward rose from 117 to 439⅞, an increase of 322⅞ points or about...
Bishop Cannon is the first to receive the Christian Herald's award, which hereafter will be annual. Since the Christian Herald is the largest Protestant weekly in the U. S. its award is a matter of no small moment. In time, Editor High and Chain-Store Tycoon James Cash Penney, who is president of the Christian Herald Association, Inc., hope to have their award rated as a sort of Nobel prize for religion. Unlike the Nobel prizes, however, Christian Herald awards will go to none but U. S. citizens...
...Into the chain store field last week went Innovation Trunk Co. of Manhattan, makers of wardrobe trunks. Following recent new financing, the trunk company has announced its intention of marketing its product, both wholesale and retail, through a chain of stores soon to be established in various large U. S. cities...
...Since my visit last May to your beautiful factory, the effect on me has been cumulative, and the receipt the other day of an announcement of your arrangement for expansion through a chain of stores not only prompts but impels an expression of my sentiment held in check since that time...