Word: ince
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...YOUR REMARKABLY PERCEIVING COVER PIECE ON BARBARA ANN [TIME, FEB. 2] . . . CONGRATULATIONS FROM HER COMPETITOR AND AN OLD TIME INC...
Bomb Dropped. Lieut. General Leslie R. Groves, boss of the wartime atomic bomb project and now head of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, will become research head of Remington Rand, Inc. when he retires from the Army this month. His new job was broadly described as "including applications of physics, chemistry, electronics, plastics and photography...
Down & Out. Philco Corp. cut prices as much as 25% on its 1948 model radios and 6% on its refrigerators. Another sign of stiff competition in the oversold radio market came from Majestic Radio & Television Corp. It went into bankruptcy, along with Majestic Records, Inc., and asked a Chicago court for permission to reorganize...
...tells the story of Richard Styles Eliot, publicity whiz for Publishers Hutchinson, Inc.,* "a perfectly authentic young-man-on-the-way-up, with all the trimmings: insomnia, a nice apartment on the correct street, seven suits, and the urge to leave his wife." His boss believed that "books are merchandise, like soap or toothpaste or fountain pens." Dick Eliot felt cheap and dishonest, but he was also a social climber with his eye on a social-register widow. So he promoted trash and got himself a nice raise...
Going, Going . . . W.A.A. will try a new idea to get rid of the large number of surplus war plants left. Three of the plants -in Toledo, Harrisburg, and Rochester- will be auctioned off in April, at the sites, by Manhattan's Joseph P. Day, Inc. If they bring a fair price, auctioneers will sell the rest of W.A.A.'s real estate...