Word: ince
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the Council still had a respectable list. It included: Christian Gauss, dean emeritus of Princeton; Mrs. Thomas W. Lament, wife of the board chairman of J. P. Morgan & Co., Inc.; Gerard Swope, honorary president of General Electric; the Most Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church...
...Playboy of the Western World (by John Millington Synge; produced by Theatre Inc.) remains, after 40 years, one of the fine things in the modern theater. What seems strange is that 40 years ago it should have been so furiously attacked. Yet the half-whimsical satire of Synge's folk comedy enraged Dublin's patriots as a stab at Ireland, and incensed her puritans by mentioning a woman's "shift."*A few years later, in Manhattan, explosive Irish Americans started a theater riot that ex-President Teddy Roosevelt, seated in a box, aborted by speaking...
...first time in the air age a pilots' strike grounded a major U.S. airline. It involved 1,100 members of the exclusive Air Line Pilots Association (A.F.L.), forced Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. to cancel flights over 28,270 miles of foreign and domestic routes...
Ever since he predicted that Boston and all other U.S. coastal cities might be destroyed by the atom bomb (TIME, May 13), Roger Babson, paid counselor to businessmen (Babson's Reports, Inc.) and gratuitous adviser to the world, has been looking for a place to hide. Last week, in the heart of Kansas, he found it. In Eureka (pop. 3,803), Babson bought a dilapidated three-story Main Street building occupied by a beer tavern and roomers. He intends to construct vaults underneath it, deposit in them the voluminous records of his wealthy clients...
Lionel, biggest toy train maker, expects to sell more trains (about $10 million worth) than the whole industry sold in its best prewar year. For grownup buffs, Chicago's Varney Scale Models Inc. invested $50,000 in drawings and dies for a new locomotive model. It has already sold 1,000 kits of parts at $100 each...