Word: ince
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allowing for different accents and conditions, it was much the same this week with most of TIME Inc.'s 278 members overseas. By & large, their celebrations were tempered by the hardships of the peoples among whom they live and work...
...divided and warring India our New Delhi bureau was having "no (repeat no) Christmas celebration." In Tokyo, TIME Inc.'s staff was forbidden by occupation directives to share food or give American gifts to Japanese. In Moscow, where rationing had ended, John Walker had assembled a Ukrainian doll for his infant daughter, a clockwork tank for his young son and, weather and the news permitting, planned to fly to Stockholm to be with his family. Overshadowing the Cairo bureau's festivities was the fighting in the Holy Land. Bureau Chief Don Burke's family had a Christmas...
Died. Irving Joseph Fox, 58, who ran a single fur coat into a $12-million annual business (I. J. Fox, Inc.) by some of the loudest publicity since Barnum; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. London-born son of a furrier, Fox pioneered in sky writing and singing commercials ("All Girls Are Beautiful"), introduced commercially some fabulous luxury furs (silverblu, platina), but did most of his business in installment sales of cheaper goods...
...Copyright 1947, Edwin H. Morris & Co., Inc...
...blast at radio repairmen set up an immediate echo. Last week New York City Councilman Stanley Isaacs threatened to introduce a long-contemplated bill forcing radio repairmen (like plumbers, electricians, etc.) to pass municipal license tests. And membership in the two-month-old Associated Radio Servicemen of N.Y.. Inc. (whose pious principle is "to see that the public gets a good deal") hopped from...