Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smiling, relaxed man with a knack of getting along with his fellow workers, most of whom call him Dave. He is a voracious reader, with a lightning mind, makes notes in clean, clear Gregg shorthand. He has not smoked since he lost his voice chain-smoking three packs in a row during an all-night conference with Wendell Willkie. He drinks sparingly: occasionally one Martini, rarely more...
Next day the union tried a novel picketing technique. Like many banks, the Brooklyn Trust's doors are adorned by brass handrails. Three women pickets-not bank employees-handcuffed themselves together and linked themselves as a human chain to the door rails, thus blocking the entrance. It took a patrolman with a hacksaw to cut the girls loose. At week's end, the bank said some 50 out of 800 employees were on strike and banking was going on as usual...
From the Princeton University campus, physicists last week released a chain of 28 helium-filled balloons to a height of 17 miles. The balloons carried 17 pounds of electronic equipment, which were supposed to tell scientists, by means of varying tones, what the cosmic rays were doing in the stratosphere. Owing to failure of the instruments, nothing was learned...
...Chain Reaction. But reports of corn were far from good. Cold weather and floods had taken a heavy toll, leaving an estimated yield of only 2.6 billion bu. The crop was still almost up to the 1936-45 average, but it was down 21% from last year. Good weather, said the report optimistically, might brighten the corn picture considerably. But corn users, not willing to take that chance, started to buy heavily...
...best symbolize the traditional Horatio Alger career." Actually, only two of the winners had come up from rags to riches. They were General Electric's Charles E. Wilson, onetime $4-a-week shipping clerk, and I. J. Fox, who ran one fur coat into the largest U.S. fur chain. The rags of the other Alger boys had been well tailored. Coty's Grover Whalen was the son of a prosperous New York contractor; Pepsi-Cola's Walter S. Mack Jr. had struggled up from Harvard. But all remained true to the Alger tradition. They waived a testimonial...