Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come to stay? With the movie box office sagging, the RKO theater chain -parent of the Palace-fervently hoped so. The movies had done their share to kill off vaudeville, but now the exhumed variety show might be just what worried movie exhibitors needed. If the Palace's new "8 Acts 8" (featured on a bill with a cinematic weak sister called Canadian Pacific) could make the grade at the box office, the RKO chain stood ready to throw vaudeville into its movie houses around the U.S., and other chains might follow suit...
...that has since become an international movement. Its intellectual nucleus is the monthly paper, the Catholic Worker. Strongly anti-capitalist and pacifist, the Catholic Worker sometimes makes the Communist Daily Worker Jook by comparison almost like a journal of reaction. Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day also opened a chain of "Houses of Hospitality," currently operating in ten U.S. cities, where anyone who applies is given free shelter and such food and clothing as there is for as long as anyone wants to stay. In addition, the movement has nine communally run farms scattered across the country...
Radioactive iodine, which has now been shown to be effective in curing disease, is a by-product of nuclear chain-reacting "piles," used to manufacture the materials for atomic bombs. There are many such piles now in operation, all under Army direction. Up to the present, the Army has been unable to release the radioactive by-products of the piles for medical or research purposes. Any one of the existing piles produces more than enough radioactive iodine in one day's operation to treat every sufferer from Graves' disease in the country. At present, all such radioactive materials are stored...
...Jersey, the 40-theater Walter Reade chain had dropped newsreels experimentally in half a dozen houses without a single complaint from a customer; it decided to ease them, out gradually in other theaters. In Manhattan, the RKO chain admitted that it would try the same experiment in a handful of its 108 double-feature houses...
Growing Pains. In Taylorville, Ill., Bill Grant, manager of a chain of movie theaters, received a $5 bill and an anonymous letter: "This money is in payment for the times. I lied about my age in order to get into the show for half price...