Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 25,000 times a day in the nation's stockyards a hog offal operator plunges her hand into the bloody base of a hog's severed head as it travels down the conveyer chain. With deft fingers she gets hold of the pituitary gland. Then, with a pair of tweezers, she removes the front half of the gland and drops it into a container of Dry Ice. That is the first step in the production of ACTH, the new wonder drug which may ultimately save millions from the ravages of arthritis, gout, rheumatic fever and kindred ills...
Bums for Lunch. By 1934, things were going so well that Partners Dobbs and Hull ventured into the food business. But not long after they bought into the Toddle Houses food shops, a Southern restaurant chain, they got in a fight with other directors who opposed their system of employee profit sharing. So Hull and Dobbs set up Toddle-like restaurants in non-Toddle cities...
...Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.-decided to continue fighting Justice's antimonopoly suit. Although they knew they would probably have to yield in the end, the longer they could stave off the splitup the more money they might make from continuing to show their own pictures in their own chain theaters...
Died. David Albert Schulte, 76, president (1903-48) and principal owner of the nationwide Schulte cigar-store chain, chairman of the board (1923-45) of Park & Tilford, Inc. (liquor and cosmetics), president of Dunhill International, Inc. (tobacco and perfume); in Holmdel, N.J. One of Manhattan's biggest real-estate operators (he had an intuitive genius for choosing the right corner-site retail stores), Schulte began as a $5-a-week errand boy, ended owning nearly 200 stores in 125 cities...
Raft, the Ritz Brothers and sundry other notables. He bought a $75,000 stucco "bungalow" in Brentwood, shared a tailor with Lou Costello, dabbled in prizefighters and bought a piece of a supermarket chain. He was anxious to cooperate with...