Word: ince
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Larsen, President of TIME Inc., in Buenos Aires on a trip, talked to President Perón and asked when we could expect the ban on TIME to be lifted. The Chief of State expressed his sympathetic understanding of TIME'S problems in Argentina and hoped "that bureaucratic blocks might soon be removed...
There is some new competition for Hollywood these days, and it does not come from Europe. A New York group called Film Producers Inc. has made a documentary which for straightforward drama and acting ability equals anything the big companies have done in a long, long, time. And this picture, "The Quiet One," has been hailed by the New York Newspaper Guild as "The Best Picture of the Year...
...Olds was cool enough. He calmly used the management's 8,889,042 proxy votes to kill a proposal to move the annual meeting to Manhattan. Olds's action roused Stockholder Wilma Soss (five shares), who recently founded the Federation of Women Shareholders in American Business, Inc. Mrs. Soss had come to the meeting dressed in a 1901 costume with mutton-chop sleeves and ostrich-plumed hat. As Chairman Olds and President Benjamin F. Fairless listened in polite boredom, Stockholder Soss sassed them. Her costume, she said, was appropriate for a management "50 years behind the times...
...hall of sufficient size." Forbes Magazine Publisher B. C. Forbes also let fly: "The time is past when companies can get away with holding their meetings in damned inaccessible places like Squeedunkus or Hohokus . . ." In midweek, the stockholders' revolt gained a small victory. Continental Can Co., Inc., which has been holding its annual meetings in Millbrook, N.Y., a more than two-hour train & bus trip from Manhattan, announced that it would hold future meetings in its Manhattan headquarters...
...copies in six weeks, and threatened to keep Random House so busy that it would not have time for other books. Yet it hated to curb such a promising child. Last week, Random House found a solution. It sold the children's books to Wonder Books, Inc., a new company owned jointly by reprint publishers Grosset & Dunlap (60%) and the Curtis Publishing...