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Word: fink (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Workers will soon finish the Boston approach, chief engineer Benjamin W. Fink said last night. As soon as this is completed, bids will be taken for the main span...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Span to be Ready in a Year | 10/15/1948 | See Source »

Back Door. Loewy, whose first soap wrapper design was for Lehn & Fink Products Corp., came into the Unilever empire through the back door. In 1938, up & coming young Charles Luckman hired him to redesign the package for Pepsodent toothpaste. Most toothpaste packages then screamed for attention with garish red containers and bold black print. Loewy persuaded Pepsodent to give its package an aseptic white exterior, with modest script lettering, which would make it look nice on a cosmetics counter. Up went Pepsodent's sales by 17%. When Pepsodent and Luckman moved into Unilever's huge U.S. branch, Lever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MERCHANDISING: Wake Up & Dream | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...William Burden Jr., of Indianapolis' John Herron Institute, sent a finely patterned, authoritatively painted study of three bicycling kids. A Portrait o/Roslyn, by the. Pennsylvania Academy's Katherine Grove, showed just how finished student work can be, and the Rhode Island School of Design's Herbert Fink contributed a boy-iff-motion that few professionals would have dared tackle (see cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tomorrow's Artists | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Except for General Motors' C. E. Wilson ($303,990) and Great Lakes Steel Corp.'s George R. Fink ($275,000), the rest of the big money earners were Hollywood workers. As usual, Hollywood has the nation's highest paid women; Ginger Rogers ($292,159) was ahead of Deanna Durbin by $30,000. (Betty Grable, last year's winner, was farther down the list with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Money | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...only dissenting note came from Fink K. Flink, a Yale potentiate who was hardly startled at all. Fink did have a word of advice for the Princetonians though. "It can't be used as legal tender anywhere outside of New Haven you know...

Author: By C. N. Gridlak, | Title: Crimson Gridders Face Subsidized Princetonians, Predict 23-2 Victory | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

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