Word: ince
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...says Bobst, "by fine people who weren't particularly qualified to carry on a business of that character." Bobst is qualified. He has been the $300,000-a-year president of Hoff-mann-LaRoche, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and is now president of the William R. Warner Co., Inc. and its cosmetic subsidiary, Richard Hudnut, Inc. He brought in new men, tightened up the organization, reduced costs from 4.7% of the amount collected in 1946 to 3.4% last year...
...decorating job, Dorothy Draper, Inc. got $120,000. To the C. & O., this was only part of the worry. After redoing the local station on the C. & O. line, Mrs. Draper demanded that no smoke-belching locomotives be allowed within five miles of the place. But the coal-burning C. & O. put its foot down, let the steamers on through...
Bendix Home Appliances Inc., which revolutionized the washing-machine industry eleven years ago with its automatic home washer, was all ready last week to do it again. As a starter, it cut prices 7%, the first postwar reductions by a major producer in the automatic-washer field. Then it announced that it had bought Cleveland's H. J. Rand Washing Machine Corp., along with the rights to a "radically different" machine, which it hopes to put on the market next fall. With price cuts and new machine, Bendix hopes to fend off the score of new washers which have...
...Congress in February, 1945, but there it was effectively snagged in a web of hostile committees. On the outside, opposition to MVA was sparked by private power companies, the coal industry, and conservative Mid Westerners fearful of what was termed "New Deal socialism," or, as the Midwest Manufacturers Associations Inc. put it, "intrusion by the Federal Government into the affairs of State and local governments...
...reformation was part of a campaign by Fawcett Publications Inc., founded on the late Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, to make itself respectable. The reformer was a drawling newsman named Bill Williams, 42, who had cut his reporter's teeth on crime stories. (Once, he barely escaped death in a crossfire between Dillinger...