Word: ince
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also, in doing the story, we were aware that TIME Inc. itself was a part of the Los Angeles story...
...distribution to the Pacific Coast states and Alaska. At present, 300,000 weekly copies of TIME and 700,000 copies of LIFE are printed in Los Angeles at Pacific Press, the largest printing plant west of Chicago. And, in keeping with the spectacular growth of Southern California, TIME Inc.'s Los Angeles bureau now consists of 25 reporters, photographers, etc. As such, it is second only to Washington, D.C. as our largest and busiest U.S. news bureau...
...current bid price: $3,050 a share). Christiana Securities Co., plus other holdings of the Du Pont family, control E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. In turn, Du Pont controls General Motors Corp. through its 10 million shares of G.M. stock. Du Pont and G.M. together own Kinetic Chemicals, Inc., a maker of refrigerants; G.M. and Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) own Ethyl Corp. (Jersey Standard is not named in the suit). Members of the Du Pont family, as individuals, own 17% of the stock of U.S. Rubber and are alleged to control...
...ailing securities market in general is barely breathing, the nation's investment companies sold $80 million worth of their own shares in the first quarter of this year, an increase of 26% over 1948. Said Edmund Brown Jr., president of Manhattan's fast-selling Fundamental Investors, Inc.: "May was the biggest month in our history and June was almost as big. Last year's business was around $10,000,000; this year we're running at the rate of $12 million." The open-end trust business, combined with the $1.7 billion assets owned...
...fear of breaking the market), hence it does not offer investors much chance for quick gains. This fact was spotted by Minneapolis-born Sidney L. Sholley, a statistician and financial analyst who had settled in Boston. In 1932, he organized a new Boston-type trust called Keystone Custodian Funds, Inc., which offered customers as conservative or as speculative a program as they wanted. If their main interest was income they could buy any of four bond funds, or two preferred-stock funds; if they wanted to gamble for quick profits they could choose from four speculative common-stock funds. Sholley...