Word: ince
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the Seatrain started operating in 1929 the dock workers had watched with anger and frustration as the great crane plucked loaded cars from its hold and set them on the railroad tracks bound for Cuba's warehouses. Their countermove was a demand on Seatrain Lines, Inc. to hire one-third more stevedores and let them load and unload each car at Havana ("for customs inspection"). Result: by last week the Seatrain had stopped running...
...have reported that Dana Perfumes, Inc. has spent several millions in publicizing their ad of Tabu, the "forbidden" perfume, and the picture of seduction at the piano [TIME, Nov. 25]. But what is going to happen now that Airwick, the total deodorant, is spending thousands too? . . . Will the moral turpitude curve show a downward trend when Airwick kills the high-priced and seductive smells distilled from the scent glands of the musk deer and the civet cat? Think on these things...
Universal-International Pictures was the first major Hollywood moviemaker to decide that the little 16-and 8-mm. movies shown in homes, schools and churches had big domestic moneymaking possibilities. Three months ago, Universal set up a subsidiary called United World Films Inc. and jumped into the little movie pond. Last week, after much splashing about, United World emerged as the pond's biggest frog...
Object Lesson. What would happen to the U.S. economy in 1947 was inextricably tied up with a bigger long-run problem: What would happen to the world's economy? J. P. Morgan & Co., Inc.'s President George Whitney said: "If this country is to prosper we must try to help raise in some measure the standard of living in other countries and thereby bring about a wider market for our goods...
...Donald Douglas, who has often spoken like a prophet of gloom, was making noises like an optimist. Said he last week: "Long-range prospects in the airline and aircraft manufacturing industries are excellent." Looking at his own business, Donald Douglas had reason to be cheerful. His Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. had abandoned its plans to build the DC-7 Globemaster and the DC-8 Mixmaster. But it had started delivering its 52-passenger, four-motored DC-6, had orders for some $200 million worth of commercial and military planes, and had made over $3 million for the first nine months...