Word: ince
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loved-and would never be loved-for being the world's richest land; but it did earn genuine gratitude. Under overall sponsorship of the Church World Service, Inc., children of 19 countries have labored to draw and paint Christmas cards thanking the U.S. for its gifts. Norse youngsters pictured their Little Dwarf with the red hat, who brings them the season's gifts; from Germany came a nightmare scene of a ship called Bremen at the bottom of the ocean, from Italy a picture showing two children amid Rome's ruins...
...population. But the Kurth achievement that most East Texans boast about, and the one that is of prime importance to the Southern economy, is newsprint. Set up only nine years ago as the South's first newsprint producer, Kurth's $18 million Southland Paper Mills, Inc. last week was rolling out enough newsprint (132,718 tons last year) to supply some 70% of Southern newspapers, and was grossing $15 million a year...
...When Snyder joined the Department of Agriculture in 1909, the most up-to-date termite catalogue available was one published five years earlier in Belgium. The Belgians had catalogued 400 species. When Snyder published his definitive work on U.S. termites in 1935 (Our Enemy the Termite; Comstock Publishing Co., Inc.), the number of classified species had jumped to 1,915. Last week in Washington, the Smithsonian Institution was selling Snyder's latest work, a paperbound, 490-page publication entitled Catalog of the Termites (Isoptera) of the World-a revised classification of 1,932 species...
...advertising world, the quipsters say, every agency has a special back door to accommodate its swarms of vice presidents. Last week, Manhattan's McCann-Erickson, Inc., fifth biggest U.S. agency,* had to enlarge its doors. It added four women to its present complement of 40 male V.P.s. The new veeps: Alberta Hays and Margot Sherman, both heads of copywriting groups; Florence Richards, an account executive, and comely Dorothy B. McCann, an executive producer in the radio-TV department and wife of McCann-Erickson's Board Chairman Harrison King McCann...
...four: J. Walter Thompson Co.; Young & Rubicam, Inc.; Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc.; N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc...