Word: ince
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LIFE'S pictures were taken from an educational motion picture called The Birth of a Baby. Produced twelve months ago by the American Committee on Maternal Welfare, Inc. and sponsored by 16 medical and social service societies, favorably previewed by a majority of 12,000 doctors and clubwomen, the picture showed a woman's life through pregnancy and childbirth (TIME, April 4). Climax of the film's 72 minutes was the actual birth of a baby. Medical groups from the American Medical Association down endorsed the film, and its serious purpose: the reduction of sickness and death...
...Gull (by Anton Chekhov; produced by The Theatre Guild Inc.). One of the things important actors can do is to get a hearing for important plays. When Chekhov's Sea Gull was revived last week with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in the cast, it instantly became news as well...
...last fall Arnaud Marts told the college he could no longer spare the time to be its president because he had to attend to his business as president of Marts & Lundy, Inc. of Manhattan, financial counselors for philanthropic organizations. Bucknell was appalled. Its students and faculty quickly signed a petition and the trustees unanimously begged him to stay. "We would rather have you as our leader at Bucknell only one day a week," wrote the trustees, "than anyone else we know for seven days a week...
...business is not equally bad everywhere, a point not generally appreciated, but brought out last week when Dun & Bradstreet published in Dun's Review a nationwide chart of trade volume at the end of January (see map). Prepared by Dr. L. D. H. Weld of McCann-Erickson, Inc., the chart was based upon Federal Reserve Board figures for bank debits, wholesale sales and department store sales, R. L. Polk & Co. figures on new car registrations, Editor & Publisher's statistics on advertising lineage and Life Insurance Sales Research Bureau statistics on new policies. Aside from variations in the price...
...happened last week on the Chicago grain exchange. Charging that it deliberately manipulated prices and attempted to corner corn futures last September, the Chicago Board of Trade expelled from membership Cargill Grain Co. of Illinois and its three top officers. Cargill Grain of Illinois is a subsidiary of Cargill Inc., generally accepted as the largest grain elevator and merchandising enterprise in the U. S. Snapped the Board of Trade: "Today's action is final and is not subject to review by any other tribunal." But grain traders agreed last week that the event was only the first round...