Word: chain
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...fine June weather, along the chain of lakes bordering their city, hundreds of East Berliners stripped to essentials and relaxed in the sun. They were not to remain undisturbed for long. Out of the blue appeared a steamer with huge loudspeakers mounted on its decks; it began cruising slowly off the beaches, barking Red propaganda at the sunbathers...
...deadline for the strike was set for 5:30 a.m. one day last week. Yet, after three months of negotiating, neither the New York World-Telegram and Sun, biggest (circ. 600,000) newspaper in the Scripps-Howard chain, nor the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild had entirely given up hope of averting it. For much of the night before the deadline, they had both wrangled over their "final offers." Then they wearily stopped negotiating...
...joined A. & P. at the age of 22 as a part-time clerk. He became secretary in 1925, lives in suburban New Rochelle, N.Y. Like other top A. & P. executives, he was picked by the Hartford brothers, John, 77, and George, 86, who still run the giant chain, also conform to the stern tradition of anonymity. John has six lines in Who's Who in America, George has three...
...contest took on its high scoring complexion in the second inning when a walk to Cliff Crosby started a chain of events that was eventually to net the Crimson ten runs on only four hits. Fifteen men came to bat in the 27-minute half inning and when it was over the keeper of the score board was trying to figure out how to put up the total. The Harvard box score: ab r h po a e Foynes, cf 3 3 1 4 0 0 Kobush, cf 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kenny...
...hotel "firsts" of Founder Ellsworth Statler, father of the modern U.S. hotel, Douglas added some firsts of his own, e.g., television sets in hotel rooms. He also boosted the income of the chain* by renting wasted ground-floor space to shops. Quiet and reserved, Douglas has none of the flamboyance of his chief rival, Conjad Hilton (TIME, Dec. 12). But last year Statler earned more money. It rang up a record gross of $49.2 million and a net of $4.1 million to Hilton's $42 million gross and $3.9 million net. (Hilton's Waldorf has since...