Word: chains
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...city flourished, perhaps on compensations which the New York World misunderstood when it attacked the city as a nest of impropriety and license. These attacks put the city out of business, nor could its Sultan retrieve damages from the World in court. The times were narrow, oppressive. Even a chain of Macfadden lunchrooms failed, all save three, after "revolutionizing the restaurant business" so that "you can get wholesome health-building foods most anywhere...
...connecting link of his proposed fifth eastern trunk system. They knew that Chairman Frank E. Taplin of the Pittsburgh & West Virginia also had mentioned a feasible hook-up of his road with the Wheeling & Lake Erie and the Western Maryland to form a Great Lakes-Atlantic Coast chain. It might be that either of these two were buying, or that the "New York Central crowd" had stepped in to prevent some competitive merger. Or it might be that John D. Rockefeller, to whom the road owes $11,396,100 plus 71% accumulated interest, was having a little fun with...
...horse is tied there and bloody scraps are sent floating out to sea. Usually it is hours before a long shape, bronze in the bright blue water, moves slowly in over the bar. Other slow shapes follow, circling the buoy cautiously. Chunks of "proud" beef, on six-inch hooks, chain leaders and lines like halyards, wait for them on the bottom-usually wait for hours. . . . In the garden of a Nassau hotel there used to be the jaws of a hammerhead shark, with a placard: "Abandon hope all ye who enter here." A more appropriate exhibit would have been...
...Since transatlantic cable rates are 22c a word, this means that the person who can distinctly speak more than 115 words a minute will save money by the new way. But he must talk with a low, steady tone, else his voice will be blurred when carried across the chain of hair-adjusted transmitting machines. Trained elocutionists might be hired to do the telephoning. President Coolidge and King George may be the first to exchange salutations by this new service, said a London despatch. President Walter Sherman Gifford of the Bell System declared he will be the first to talk...
...years before, Charles A. Whelan and his brother George J. Whelan entered a partnership to sell tobacco at wholesale in Syracuse, N.Y. They had a genius for selling, and so it was not many years before they had built up the United Cigars Stores chain. This chain now numbers close to 3,000 retail stores. Last year they did an $85,000,000 business...