Word: ince
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jobs. Last week PRIDC, now headed by energetic Teodoro Moscoso Jr., announced that under agreements reached with private firms, 40 new plants were in operation or planned; five other companies were dickering to set up factories. Biggest of the newcomers is Textron Inc., which abruptly closed its Nashua, N.H. plant (TIME, Sept. 27) and is now finishing the first of five factories to manufacture rayon and other textiles in Puerto Rico. Other new plants include Tele-tone (radio tubes and equipment), Crane China, Fashion Rite Gloves...
...than 100 years, but surgeons are still trying to improve it. For two days in Manhattan last week, eye specialists from the U.S. and eight foreign countries discussed the delicate operation at the first International Symposium on Corneal Surgery ever held, sponsored by the Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration, Inc...
...Frills. That spirit was typified by-among others-Air America, Inc. of San Pedro, Calif., founded last year by 34-year-old, Austrian-born Fred Miller. A civilian personnel director for the Army Air Forces, Miller joined the Flying Tigers cargo airline after the war and saved $15,000. This was enough to rent four DC-45 and start flying the lucrative Los Angeles-New York route last July. Flying 20 round trips a month at cut-rate fares of $99 ($58.85 under scheduled lines), Air America had carried 11,270 passengers by the end of the year...
...Gimlet-eyed old Chairman Sewell Avery had no trouble at all in glowering down all opposition to his one-man rule of Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. After a couple of critics had halfheartedly denounced him at the annual meeting of stockholders in Chicago, Avery easily won re-election as a director and chairman...
...When the sales of Willys-Overland Motors, Inc. began to slip recently, Chairman-President James D. Mooney and Adman Ward M. Canaday, a top Willys stockholder, could not agree on what to do about it. Last week Mooney moved out as president, but stayed on as chairman. Canaday began shopping for another president. A likely candidate: ex-President Charles E. Sorensen, whom Canaday had kicked upstairs to vice chairman when Mooney came in three years ago. Thanks to an airtight contract from Canaday, Sorensen draws $1,000 a week for the next five years whether he does anything...