Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...local Iowa chain of 35 grocery stores (Red Ball Corp., headquarters at Des Moines) last week bought 15 stores at Des Moines and Valley Junction, Iowa, from a National chain of grocery stores (Piggly Wiggly, Delaware corporation, headquarters at Memphis, Tenn...
...incident had this significance: a local chain can be so ef- fective that it can resist hysterical battering of the independent re- tailer and the methodical ramming of the national chain. National chain stores have often absorbed local chains; it is possible that national chains may break down into local "lengths" such as the Red Ball Corp...
...32nd annual convention. It is the national organization of Negro physicians, surgeons, dentists and pharmacists. All Negro professional men do not belong to it; some hold aloof from racial associations. But most do belong, and to them, especially those who happen to trip against the bars of local sub-organizations of the American Medical Association, the National Medical Association is an invaluable agency of professional culture and public health...
From Fort Worth, Texas, and from Georgetown, Ky., public health officials reported local epidemics of infantile paralysis. About Fort Worth the disease has been a menace the past two months; Georgetown had 13 cases last week. In southern Ohio were sporadic cases...
Disadvantages: lack of portability (air supply is stationary or clumsy to move); noise, which might bother some operators and would certainly bother patients having a bone chiseled under local anesthesia, while conscious...