Word: defunction
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...battle lines were drawn when the Journal's parent Curtis Publishing Co. bought part of the defunct Coronet's list of 2,325,903 subscribers. In an apparently pre-emptive move against what the Journal might do with such a list, McCall's fortnight ago, in full-page ads in major newspapers, proclaimed its intention to boost circulation to 8,000,000 by December, making it second only to the Reader's Digest (12,976,581) in the monthly magazine field. To lure advertisers, McCall's said it would charge them on the basis...
...stories and novels are not so much perceived as vaguely apprehended, looming unexpectedly through an ambiance of feeling. In her oblique vision the disappointments of childhood are glimpsed in a puddle of frozen gutter water, the fears of adulthood suggested by the sharp, metallic smell of a nearly defunct streetcar line. The method can be tedious, but in her second novel, New Orleans-born Author Grau proves again that in the hands of a first-rate storyteller the shortest route between fact and feeling is not necessarily the straight line...
...promoter. Carbo, who has served time for manslaughter and illegal matchmaking but beaten five murder raps, faces up to 85 years in prison and $50,000 in fines. Also convicted were his chief errand boy. Frank ("Blinky") Palermo; Lawyer Truman Gibson Jr., once president of the now defunct International Boxing Club; and two small-change L.A. hoods. The convictions meshed neatly with Senate subcommittee hearings on a bid by Tennessee's Estes Kefauver to create a racket-busting federal boxing commissioner to purge the sport of gangland control. Kefauver's proposal won heavyweight support from a quartet...
...also one of the eight original stockholders in the now defunct Hudson Motor Car Co. His name was given to the company's cars because the other investors liked its sound...
...manage so informally. Ho formed Capi tal Investment Co., three years later made his first big killing at the expense of Castle & Cooke, one of Hawaii's conservative "big five" companies. He coolly raised Castle & Cooke's $800,000 bid for the 9,000 acres of a defunct sugar company on Oahu. Four years later, after parceling off only 40% of the land to small farmers, Ho had collected $3,000,000 more than he had paid for the acreage. Ho is saving the balance of the land for a development that he thinks will be worth...