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Word: ince (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elemental breed of cats drink cheap King Kong liquor, puff reefers and shout a frank and sexy jive talk all their own. Jewish Swingsters Larry Kent and Jerry Brandow joined with Negro Swingsters Willie Spotswood, Ed Robinson and Leonard Ware in publishing it last January through Exclusive Publications, Inc. under the group names Kent Brandow and Robinson Ware Spotswood. Soon it was being innocently squalled all over the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hold Barred | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...Andrews Sisters' recording sold 150,000, 20,000 more than their Bei Mir Bist Du Schön for same period. It reached fourth place in the Hit Parade. This week, just as the radio got wise, the Fishery Council New York and Middle-Atlantic Area Inc. decided to adopt Hold Tight as its theme song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hold Barred | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...Wild Bill" Wasserman started his business career with a $1,500,000 nest egg his father made manufacturing carpets. He has substantially enlarged it by managing two investment trusts, the Investment Corp. of Philadelphia and the Delaware Fund, Inc., and by using his sharp eyes in a number of ways. In 1931, for example, he took a look at Russia's bumper wheat crop, concluded that it would depress the world market, and took a short position in sterling that netted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: Prewar Suggestion | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...York's tabloid Daily News. Others: Publisher William Franklin Knox of the Chicago Daily News, $75,000; Robert L. ("Believe It or Not") Ripley from King Features Syndicate, $149,777; New York Daily News Managing Editor Harvey Deuel, $130,567; Publisher Frank Gannett from the Gannett Co. Inc., $60,000; General Manager Kent Cooper of the Associated Press, $63,947. President Marion (Davies) Douras of Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions Inc. (cinema distributors) was paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: ABOVE AVERAGE | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Federal Trade Commission's stipulation-of-the-week: "Keystone Laboratories, Inc., 491 South Third St., Memphis, trading as Memphis Mail Order House, Curio Products Company and White Line, will discontinue representing that Poreen Ointment, La Jac Lovin' Pink Cream for Dark Skins or La Jac Orange Beauty Glow Cream are skin foods or skin whiteners; that other of its products eliminate wrinkles; that La Jac Brite Skin Bleach will overnight, or in any stated time, make the skin five shades lighter or that Lucky Mojo, Good Luck Incense, Hindoo Mystic Love Perfume, Holy Oil with Live Loadstone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Not Irresistible | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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