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Word: ince (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles has finally forced the East to go West and do business. Many firms have surrendered to it completely, have moved their headquarters to Los Angeles. Among them: Rexall Drug, Inc., Carnation Co., American Potash & Chemical Corp. With all this, Los Angeles is the richest agricultural county and the most productive dairying county in the nation. As an afterthought it raises 3,000,000 rabbits, 10,000 chinchillas and most of the country's cymbidium orchids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Pink Oasis | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...show was the climax of a contest sponsored by Kansas City's Hall Brothers, Inc. (Hallmark cards), and designed to tap French talent for next year's batch of U.S. Christmas cards (TIME, March 21). Le Plan Hallmark, as the French immediately dubbed it, had drawn snorts & sneers from French Communists, 5,121 entries from the painters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Christmas in June | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...Copyright 1949 by TIME Inc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President and Politics | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...seemed to have found it-and to be starting the upward climb again. In industrial alcohol, a basic raw material for many manufacturers, the surplus had caused prices to toboggan from 87? a gallon to 21?, but by last week the turn seemed to have come. Pub-licker Industries, Inc., a big U.S. maker of industrial alcohol, thought demand had picked up enough so it could raise prices 8½? to 11? a gallon. Even in textiles, softest of the soft spots, there was some hardening; American Woolen Co. also raised prices on 14 of its woolen-type fabrics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Bottom? | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Dime-a-Dose. In Madison, Tenn., Spray-a-Tan, Inc. started production of a coin-operated machine, invented by William H. Hayes and William B. Jakes Jr., designed to take the sand and rubbing out of suntan oiling. For a dime, a sunbather can step up to an aluminum cabinet (see cut) and spray himself with oil for 60 seconds. The price: $200 a machine and $7 a gallon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Jun. 27, 1949 | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

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