Word: ince
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roycrofters printed and bound books, made elegant whatnots of pottery, wood, metal and hand-tooled leather. After the elder Hubbard's death, however, the community slipped financially, lately was $160,000 in the red. Last week, a religious organization called the Federation of Churches of Infinite Science, Inc. contracted to buy the Roycroft properties for $121,500 and take over most of the community's debts...
Four months ago, a Pan American subsidiary, Pacific Alaska Airways, Inc., started overland service from Juneau to Fairbanks via White Horse, Canada. Pacific Alaska was fashioned in 1932 out of two independent lines, operating round Alaska at random in competition with dog teams...
...their hands. Last fortnight Hollywood got fair warning of another effort along similar lines when Agent Myron Selznick, who makes about $1,000,000 a year, announced that he would use some of it to help Director Ernst Lubitsch launch a company to be known as Ernst Lubitsch Productions, Inc. From it Director Lubitsch would draw a share of profits instead of a salary. Last week the Selznick system of cinematic share cropping showed signs of becoming a definite trend. Agent Selznick announced that Carole Lombard and William Powell had agreed to act in pictures on the same sort...
...Delayed imposing limits on speculative trading in grain. Commodity Exchange Commission let slip the news that the effective date for these rules (TIME, June 27) had been postponed indefinitely since both the Chicago Board of Trade and Cargill Inc. had protested that the rules exceeded CEC's constitutional prerogative...
Keeping the starch and discarding the "hearts of wheat'' from flour greatly irks such scientists as Dr. Robert Runnels Williams because it "throws away the mechanism necessary for the metabolism of that starch'' (TIME, July 11). Last week in Chicago, Morris Mills, Inc. demonstrated to the trade for the first time a practical process for making flour without removing the germ. The trade was interested; present were seven foreign consuls, U. S. officials and representatives of 50% of U. S. flour production. Edward Jacob and Edgar Martin Miller, father and son, Missouri millers, invented the process...