Word: ince
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While scratching his beard in a foxhole one day, Infantryman Al Daniels thought up the idea as a gag. When he came home, U.S. cosmetic peddlers, well aware of the faint line between a gag and a gold mine, would not let him forget it. So Daniels Shadow Proof Inc. of Boston last week invaded the $50,000,000-a-year men's toiletries market with a carnation-scented, flesh-colored paste which will camouflage 5 o'clock shadow and banish that unshaven look. At Manhattan's Macy's, one excited employee hailed...
Many a retiring general and admiral had landed a snug industrial job: the Seabees' Admiral Ben Moreell, onetime Coal Administrator, as chairman of the board of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.; the Army Service Forces' General Brehon Somervell as president of Koppers Co., Inc. of Pittsburgh, at a $75,000 salary; wartime ordnance chief Lieut. General Levin H. Campbell Jr. as an International Harvester Co. vice president; Lieut. General Jimmy Doolittle as vice president of Shell Union Oil Corp...
...heavily for the war-taught savvy of top-ranking officers: A.T.C.'s Lieut. General Harold L. George now heads Peruvian International Airways at Lima at about $50,000 a year; strategic bombing expert Lieut. General Barney McK. Giles is vice president in charge of engineering for Air Associates Inc.; former War Shipping Administrator Vice Admiral Emory S. Land is president of the Air Transport Association...
...letting go all but his West Coast plant. By last week North American was breaking out of the shell again. It had leased from the Government, and started to move into, the 500,000-sq.-ft. Long Beach, Calif, plant operated by Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. during...
...Copyright 1947 by TIME Inc...