Word: ince
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this writing the offices of TIME-LIFE International, publishers of TIME Inc.'s overseas editions, are overwhelmed with requests for copies of a book called How To Do Business Under the Marshall Plan. The roster of names signed to these letters could serve as a Who's Who of American business, big and small, and the sentiments they express show a genuine desire on the part of private industry to participate wholeheartedly in the Marshall Plan...
...importance of world trade and ECA to TIME Inc. is obvious: TLI is founded on the belief that the exchange of news and goods between America and the rest of the world is for the benefit of all concerned, and (exemplifying that point) the overseas editions of TIME and LIFE International carry advertising sold separately from TIME Inc.'s U.S. edition...
Less for Clothes. Prospects were not that bullish all around. In clothing, food and shoes, the price trend was still down. Following the lead of Crawford Clothes, Inc. (TIME, Oct. 25), two suitmakers, a shirtmaker, and a big men's wear retailer last week announced price cuts ranging from 6% to 20%. And the Department of Labor reported that food prices dropped 0.6% from mid-August to mid-September, with the result that the cost of living remained the same in mid-September as a month before, ending a steady advance of five months. (The index has still...
...problem of buying for all ages is simplified by the Toy Guidance Council Inc., financed by 175 manufacturers and retailers. This year it is distributing 1,500,000 Toy Yearbooks describing 200 toys which help children to learn to count and spell. Examples: Play and Count book (price: $1.25), magnetized "Pick-up-Stix" (69?), the "Playskool Counting House" scale, which balances only when weighted numbers on both sides add up to the same figure...
Corner or not, General Foods had owned enough rye to scare the daylights out of Minneapolis' Cargill, Inc., the world's biggest grain trader. Cargill had sold rye short and would have lost its shirt if it could not have bought grain to cover its contracts before the near corner drove the price skyhigh. The court shook its head over the slick trick Cargill, Inc. had used to import Canadian rye cheaply and break the market. Cargill apparently had been able to do so by crawling through a loophole in the law that permitted the import...