Word: ince
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dream Tube. Other color systems besides those of the main contestants have been proposed to FCC. The "line sequential" system of Color Television Inc. uses a single picture tube with three blocks of different colored phosphors on its face. The colored pictures are combined by projection lenses on a common screen. But C.T.I. has not shown its color pictures officially, and no one is sure how good they are or will...
Time for Table-Hopping. It all added up to big business. In addition to Vaughn Monroe Productions Inc. (which covers his tours, records, and radio shows, brought in $1,000,000 last year), he owns or has an interest in a fleet of Boston taxicabs, an office building, a song-publishing house, a moving-picture producing outfit which has just completed a picture starring Vaughn Monroe...
Last week, Du Pont finally found its long-sought competitors in Olin Industries, Inc., one of the biggest U.S. makers of cartridges, military small arms, and sporting rifles. Du Pont will sell Olin licenses on all Cellophane patents. Du Pont will also design and build a plant with a capacity of 33 million pounds of Cellophane a year on a fixed fee basis, and then help train Olin's personnel to get the operation started...
...Washington last week a customer bustled up to a counter in Magruder, Inc. and tried to buy 96 Ibs. of coffee. She was told she could buy only one 24-lb. case of Ib. tins. In many another U.S. city, hoarding housewives, having heard rumors of $1 a Ib. coffee, were hastily grabbing all they could get. Under such scare buying, coffee prices shot up as much as 25? a Ib. Last week the National Coffee Association estimated that hoarding consumers have already bought at least 132 million pounds more than they need...
...Canadian hinterland. Though a truck road now cuts across Labrador, it will be a few years before a railroad is built. One plan sees the beginning of work on a 360-mile rail line by next summer. The actual mining operations in Labrador are being financed by Republic Steel, Inc., and six Canadian companies...