Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midweek, motorists had slowed to average speeds of 50-60 m.p.h., while many trucks that had flocked to M-1 returned to safer, slower routes. Then, one fog-shrouded morning on the motorway's northern reaches, a chain reaction took place. A disabled truck pulled to the side of the road, and a car stopped behind it; a police "breakdown van" pulled in to help. A truck piled into the breakdown van and the truck driver was killed. Another truck piled into the wreckage and its driver too was killed...
...Chain-drinking vodka-and-soda at the Hotel Gloria Bar, the fugitive reflected on his happy life. "I like people, particularly the Brazilians," he said. "They're about as sweet, tender and kind a group of people as you could ever find." He pointed to his night-shift bodyguard, Alvaro Fernández, a police plainclothesman by day. "Alvaro here and a lot of friends in the police are taking care of me on their days off. I have a lot of friends...
Serve Yourself. In France there are close to 3,000 new self-service grocery stores doing so much business that retailers speak of a "commercial revolution." Many of the stores are independently owned and operated, but the biggest push comes from the chains. France's big Félix Potin chain has already turned half of its 96 stores into self-service markets, plans to convert all its stores to self-service by 1961, reports that sales automatically double when customers realize that they can shop faster, more easily and more cheaply at self-service. Two years ago, Paris...
...months, publishing circles have buzzed with the rumor that the New York Journal-American (circ. 599,536), biggest afternoon paper in the Hearst chain, was selling out to Scripps-Howard's afternoon New York World-Telegram and Sun (circ. 450,486). The rumor gained currency in the light of two major Hearst and Scripps-Howard mergers: last year's merger of Hearst's money-losing International News Service with Scripps-Howard's United Press, and last summer's union of Hearst's unprofitable San Francisco evening paper, the Call-Bulletin, with Scripps-Howard...
...archaeology, major discoveries don't usually occur in any meaningful chain of events. The Lydian room was uncovered after extensive exploration of the precinct of the House of Bronzes (called by the excavators "H.B."), just a few days before the campaign...