Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government institution, a chain of these dining rooms feeds daily some 10,000 adults, 36,000 children. Cost of a meal: one bolivar...
Dissected Love Affair. Professor Tinbergen observed this byplay; then he took it apart. First he proved that the male would attack as a rival a crude dummy fish with a red belly like his own. Professor Tinbergen then made a dummy with a swollen abdomen. This released a chain of mating reactions in the eager male, which tried to entice the dummy into his waiting nest...
...cinemogul. In addition to buying control of RKO, he has spent about $2,400,000 for his completed but unreleased picture, Mad Wednesday, another $3,000,000 for Vendetta, still unfinished. And he still has $1,750,000 tied up in The Outlaw. With RKO's chain of 124 houses, Hughes will now have an outlet for his movies, at least until the antitrust suit against moviemakers is settled...
...Mexico) and the Stanley Co. Also sued was Schine Theater Co. (150 theaters in six states), owned by J. Myer Schine (TIME, Dec. 23, 1946), a small-town boy who still lives at Gloversville, N.Y. (pop.: 23,000). (In his spare time, Schine also put together a chain of nine hotels, including Florida's swank Boca Raton Club and Los Angeles Ambassador Hotel...
...another ball, scores of other fluorescent ping-pong balls started dancing and popping around in a cage. In this entertaining way, the Monsanto Chemical Co., which ran atomic research at the Clinton Laboratories at Oak Ridge until early this year, demonstrated the principles of atomic fission and a chain reaction to the worried citizens of Miamisburg...