Word: ince
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last July, four months after appearing in bookstores, it was rescued from imminent obscurity. Grey-haired, bespectacled 70-year-old John S. Sumner; executive secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, decided it endangered public morals. He got a court order against Doubleday & Co., Inc., its publishers, set Manhattan cops to raiding bookstores and Manhattan citizens to hunting copies as zealously as they hunted steaks...
...Assets Administration had kept its decision to itself. But it was an open secret in Washington that the most favored of the 16 bids had come from Big Inch Oil, Inc., headed by Charles Howard Smith, an old hand in the fuel business. WAA aides even gossiped that Smith's company, which had offered $110,000,000, had been given the final okay by WAA Boss Robert M. Littlejohn...
...Whitman, genteel, well-to-do daughter of an Italian countess, did not accept the offer. But after her husband died, she remembered it. Last week, in its small (25 ft. by 35 ft.) but plushy quarters on Manhattan's Park Avenue, Countess Mara, Inc. celebrated its eighth and most opulent anniversary. Since its first birthday, sales (of silk ties only, at $6.50 to $15 each) have increased over 1,400%; they netted $40,155 last year...
...inventor named Henry Ford. They both thought that a Ferguson-designed tractor, which had a hydraulic mechanism to raise and lower a plow automatically, would revolutionize agriculture. It didn't-exactly. But in the process the Ford Motor Co. made 250,000 Ferguson tractors, helped build Harry Ferguson Inc. into one of the biggest U.S. agricultural equipment companies...
...ordinary company, such a blow might have been fatal. But Harry Ferguson Inc. is no ordinary company. Thanks to old Henry Ford, its manufacturing setup is probably the most remarkable in the country. Its basic idea is a pet Ford word, decentralization. Ferguson has built up a system of manufacturing 46 farm implements to go with its tractors through 105 subcontracting plants scattered throughout the country, close to their markets. Example: the Towner Manufacturing Co. of Santa Ana, Calif, makes offset disc harrows for orchards, because the biggest orchard market is almost in its back yard...