Word: ince
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Licensed Beverage Industries, Inc. blew the dust off some rare old statistics on the state of the U.S. thirst. The per capita consumption of distilled spirits was 2.86 gallons in 1860, only 1.22 gallons...
National Selected Morticians, Inc.. a "professional group" with headquarters in Chicago, considered the atomic age and was appalled. The average undertaker has probably never seen a Geiger counter, but it was obvious that he would soon have to face the problem of radioactive "remains." In hushed tones, on tiptoe, and with the little finger sympathetically but gracefully extended, as always, Mortuary Science, the magazine of National Selected Morticians, Inc., prepared the "funeral-service profession" for the worst...
...National Selected Morticians, Inc. made it plain that there was no sense in taking too many chances. Remains that are dangerously radioactive, Mortuary Science concluded, will probably have to be interred by atomic scientists themselves...
...Stems, Big Prices. Detroit's Ferry-Morse Seed Co., which claims to be the "world's largest producer and distributor" of vegetable and flower seeds, introduced a sweet pea called the Cuthbertson, notable for long stems and resistance to summer heat. Manhattan's Max Schling Seedsmen, Inc., the Tiffany of seed houses (it once got as much as $10 for a packet of delphinium seeds), offered a "Tyrian pink and yellow" dahlia at $15 for a single tuber...
Divorced. Rear Admiral Ellery Wheller Stone, 53, chief of the Italian Affairs section at Allied Force Headquarters in Italy, ex-head of the Allied Control Commission in Italy, president of Postal Telegraph, Inc.; by Louise Wardwell Stone; after twelve years, three children; in Reno...