Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Modern daily journalism has become a highly systematized business enter prise, conducted on the chain store principle, with money-making as its aim," decleared Oswald Garrison Villard '93, editor of The Nation, in his address at Phillips Brooks House last night, Mr. Villard asserted that this state of affairs gave little room for the existence of ethics in journalism, announced as the topic of his talk...
Binding the U. S. are 62 chain store systems. Besides 5 & lO? stores, there are stores for shoes, furniture, music, drugs, cigarets, candy & food. As they profit, so profits the nation. Their condition is accepted by statisticians as the nearest to an infallible arrow of prosperity or decline as exists. Last week 30 of them reported that their ten months' receipts to Nov. 1 were $843,292,700-more than the business in 1926 by $106,-471,445. Accordingly, the U. S. is better off industrially by 14.45% than...
Their report is accessible to the Federal Reserve Board. Last week the board in Washington disclosed compilations for chain store sales to the end of June 30. The 62, including the A. & P. sold goods, said the board, amounting to $1,062,854,000, es-ceeding the 1926 figure for the comparable six months...
From the office of Frederick S. Duncan, for more than 20 years counsel for the Weed Chain Tire Grip Co. and its successor, the American Chain Co., came loud and speedy protest. He stated facts: The "Weed" tire chain was named after its inventor, Harry D. Weed, of Canastota (near Syracuse) N. Y. Under license agreement from him, the company produced Weed chains and paid all royalties therefrom for many years, later buying the patent rights. Colonel Weed is vigorously alive in Bridgeport and retains a close consulting connection with the American Chain Co., successors to the Weed Chain Tire...
...Weed is also decidedly alive; by no means penniless. They have a home at Syracuse, another at Southport, Conn.; frequently stop at the Stratfield Hotel, Bridgeport. Their son, Robert F. Weed, married Martha Lashar, daughter of Walter B. Lashar, president of the American Chain Co., and cousin of famed Thomas Lashar, onetime (1916) Yale coxswain...