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Word: ince (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mohawk Carpet Mills, Inc., New York City; Bamberger's, Newark; and the Wearever Division of the Aluminum Corporation of America in Boston have also extended invitations for Christmas employment conferences. All of these firms are primarily interested only in graduating seniors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 5 National Firms Ask All Students To Job Previews | 12/17/1948 | See Source »

...Nathan ("Ned") Ohrbach's book on how to run a clothing store. If a dress is not sold in ten days, Ned knocks it down to cost; after another week he cuts it to half the cost (but seldom has to). Last year his two Ohrbach's, Inc. stores - on Manhattan's shrill 14th Street, and in Newark, N.J. - made a handsome profit of $1,500,000 on close to $40 million in sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Cash & Hurry | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Only a few weeks ago Hennessy, who has taken just three vacations in 48 years of hard work, announced that he would retire as the $85,000-a-year chairman of the Hotels Statler Co., Inc. Ever since, he has been worrying about what to do with his spare time. Accepting the Childs job, he said: "Childs . . . has a great name, but has slipped financially and in popularity. It should be brought back to its rightful place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RESTAURANTS: New Chef at Childs | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Married. Louis Burt Mayer, 63, durable, diamond-smooth cinemogul (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Loew's, Inc.); and Mrs. Lorena Layson Danker, 41, Hollywood widow; each for the second time (he was divorced last April after 43 years of marriage) ; in Yuma, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 13, 1948 | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

When Jean Abel Gros (pronounced grow) first saw the famed pre-Christmas parade of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co., Inc. 13 years ago, he got an idea. A showman with a small boy's taste for shows, Jean Gros, 54, had spent years building up a marionette road-show business. He had lost it all staging a grand opera with puppets (75 singers were hidden behind the curtain). He decided that if he could get huge balloon figures like Macy's, and somehow design them to fit under trolley wires, he could stage such parades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: The Balloon Man | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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