Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prevent it. It was agreed that if the Japanese got into the Isthmus of Kra, the British would fight. It was also agreed that if the British fought, we would have to fight. . . . If this expedition was allowed to round the southern point of Indo-China, this whole chain of disastrous events would be set on foot...
...turned up in the studio of San Antonio's Station WOAI at 8 a.m., in a white Stetson, a green-and-yellow embroidered shirt, and hand-tooled boots. He brought with him a stack of pulp magazines, for inspiration. To make it look harder, he had a policeman chain him to a piano...
When the National Labor Relations Board opened the door to the unionization of foremen a year ago, it timidly kept the night chain on. The foremen, said NLRB, could only join independent unions of their own. NLRB was plainly unwilling to divorce foremen completely from management by permitting them to join rank-&-file labor unions...
Married. John Josiah Newberry, 68, founder and board chairman of the J. J. Newberry five-&-ten chain (49 stores); and Alice Malloy, 57; he for the second time, she for the first; in Boston...
...island is a part of Japan's volcanic chain, which began a period of renewed activity in 1940 after nearly 30 years' quiescence. Some islands in the chain now reach as high as 1,000 feet; some are inhabited. But scientists think it is probable that the eruption creating the new island will soon cease and that the rocks will gradually recede into...