Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also shifted its emphasis. Today, with some 1,900,000 members in 10,000 local associations in 60 lands, the "Y" is no longer exclusively evangelical or Christian; Jews may belong.* Most people now think of the Y. M. C. A. not as a religious organization but as a chain of semi-public young men's clubs, with gymnasiums and clean beds...
...expected sponsors the census showed a potential audience of some 25,000, with a per capita buying power five times that of the average U. S. consumer and very little else to do evenings but listen to a radio. Expecting a short-wave network connection with some U. S. chain, KFAR nevertheless intends to broadcast home-made programs for Alaska's own needs. It will announce airplane arrivals and departures to a people who fly 17 times as much per capita as their fellow citizens in the States. It hopes to teach the sourdough how to make better biscuits...
Once the boast of Harlem, now just a strong link in the Broadway chain, the Cotton Club doops a lot of colored hotcha and horseplay. Though much of the old animal verve of Harlem has given way to routine Broadway showmanship, the show has winning headliners in Tapster Bill Robinson (see col. j) and Crooner Cab Galloway; a pleasant surprise in Hymn Swinger Sister Tharpe; plenty of jungle...
...attempt to cut off the sources of information and supply to the tutors. As a vast extension of the previous rule regarding scholarship holders, it has decreed that no students shall be employed by the Massachusetts Avenue schools. This rule will be a vital link in Harvard's chain of action. In itself, it will strike a heavy blow at the tutoring bureaus--just how stunning the proprietors alone know. It must be enforced; and a cooperative attitude from the students, together with ruthlessness on the part of University officials are capable of doing this...
Mail Order. Another pair of high earn ers were Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward. Both mail-order houses now obtain 50 to 60% of their sales as department stores. Although department store sales in general are running barely ahead of last year, chain groceries about 5% higher, Sears and Montgomery Ward were 20% ahead of 1938 in April. On this increase in volume, Sears' Chairman Robert E. Wood (who plays along with the New Deal) estimates his company will more than double the $7,000,000 profits earned in the 1938 first quarter; Montgomery Ward's Chairman Sewell...