Word: co
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, one of the nation's largest architectural firms, for the Manufacturers Trust Co.'s new open-faced aluminum and glass Fifth Avenue bank building...
...Dallas this week, an encouraging advance on the drug front was jointly announced by Sloan-Kettering, the Mellon Institute and Parke, Davis & Co. Their newest drug: "D.O.N." (for 6-diazo-s-oxo-l-norleucine), which effectively inhibits the formation of nucleic acid in mouse cancer cells, but causes negligible harm to healthy cells...
With summer on the way, Good Humor Co. of Calif, reported that it cannot find enough drivers to man its bell-ringing trucks. The report, and dozens like it, led economists for Manhattan's austere First National City Bank to an interesting speculation: "If we had figures on unfilled job requisitions, it is possible that they would show that there are more unfilled jobs than persons unemployed." And that, points out National City, "is a condition of 'overemployment...
With no warning at all, one of Manhattan's biggest ad agencies last week hung up its grey flannel suit, wrapped the draperies of its couch about it and lay down to pleasant dreams. Milton H. Biow, 63-year-old founder, chairman and president of Biow Co., Inc., announced that he would liquidate the company at the end of June. His explanation: "After 40 years of intensive application, I feel that I can now pursue other interests...
...money gain such renown that TV's current $64,000 Question pays him a royalty. He found a midget bellhop, assigned him the $20,000-a-year job of shrilling "Call for Philip Morris!" By 1952, with an annual billing of $50 million, Biow Co. ranked as the eighth biggest U.S. advertising agency...