Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midst of an interchange on the President's request for power to control speculation on the commodity exchanges, a correspondent for a chain of business papers broke in. Would these controls, he asked, relate also to the cotton and wool exchanges? The President looked at his interrogator. Is cotton a commodity? he asked. Is wool a commodity...
Most Sears, Roebuck & Co. stores are plain, functional buildings with big show windows and large, eye-hitting signs. But last week the mail-order chain opened a new store that was a sport; it had only a few small windows and it looked like a citadel in Spain. Its single sign was restrained and inconspicuous...
...Friendship Train (TIME, Nov. 17) rolled on last week, its chain of boxcars lengthening like a giant beanstalk. It rumbled down the eastern slope of the Great Divide and over Midwestern plains. At city and whistle stop alike, additional cars bulging with food were hitched up. At week's end, the train had 207 cars, and it had still not reached New York, where a huge end-of-the-line contribution for Europe's hungry was already waiting...
...true that in many cases to present the board with full details and witnesses would be to reveal secret FBI methods and perhaps even to lay open an entire chain of counter-espionage. In such cases, as Associate Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger declared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine recently, "the FBI must, choose between the chain and the conviction." For it is true, in every case, that the government's loyalty program, unless it provides stringent safeguards for the individual, will pass over the line of necessary security and become just that sort of unnecessary purge that Americans...
Angered by these tactics, J. O. Moore, president of the National Association of Shoe Chain Stores, said: "It is difficult for shoe chains to extend general sympathy to all requests for increases based on so-called replacement pricing. An examination of financial statements of certain segments of the industry employing replacement pricing shows that lavish reserves have been provided to cushion the same firms against prices on the downgrade...