Word: ince
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Forest, of American Television Inc., wrote in to ask whether Inventor White had applied his siren to remedying afflictions like tinnitis (ringing in the ears), which has plagued the "father of radio" for years...
...Donnelley & Sons Co., TIME Inc.'s Chicago printers, wanted to know if it would be possible to "set ink on paper by molecular vibration through a sound medium...
...crossed, but he was cunning, and he earned the respect of New York City's top crooks. When he hooked up with Meyer Lansky, New York ranked him as one of the "Big Six." He beat raps for rape, carrying concealed weapons, possessing narcotics, and murder. In 1933, Murder, Inc. was branching out. Bugsy, a member, set up western headquarters in Hollywood...
Their pleasant surprise was shared by Lucky Stores, Inc. and its burly, pink-faced president, Charles Crouch, 49. As an experiment he had hired New York's Raymond Loewy Associates to see if barnlike, depressing super markets could be imbued with some beauty. Crouch had an idea it would help lure in housewives. When he opened his $248,000 store, Crouch thought it was beautiful enough to gross $39,000 weekly. Last week, when he totted up the first four weeks' take, he found that he had underestimated its beauty; the gross was averaging...
Crouch and associates sold their interests in Lucky Stores in 1943 to Manhattan's Blair & Co., Inc. for $276,000 and 20% of the profits for five years. Crouch stayed as president on $46,000 salary. Crouch, who thinks that the grocery business is "one of the sloppiest in the world," had long dreamed of improving it with streamlined super markets. He now plans four more beautiful stores...