Word: ince
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tough, canny Mr. Cohu, World War I flyer and ex-board chairman of Northrop Aircraft Inc., lost no time in swinging his new broom-and his ax. He spent so much time flying from one TWA office to another that a TWA underling quipped: "The loneliest place in the company is the president's office in Kansas City...
Company officials candidly said that l.T. & T. had made mistakes in running Federal. Its experience had been largely in communications (All America Cables & Radio, Inc., Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co., etc.). But l.T. & T. was getting production know-how and expanding its U.S. enterprises (principally Federal Telephone & Radio) to make up for its liquidated or blocked overseas investments...
Cellophane Monopoly? Trustbuster John F. Sonnett of the Department of Justice got after E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (Inc.). In a civil suit, he charged that Du Pont had the U.S. Cellophane market so tightly wrapped that it 1) got more than $46 million of last year's $62 million total sales, 2) imposed production restrictions on American Viscose Corp.'s Sylvania division, its only competitor in the U.S., and 3) divided the world market with a four-nation cartel. Sonnett asked the court to make Du Pont sell enough plants to permit competition. Du Pont...
Much more newspaper noise was made two days later by the decision in the case of Remington Rand Inc., makers of office equipment. Remington Rand asked regional boards in Buffalo and Detroit for an election among 10,000 of its employees in six plants, to find out whether they still wanted the C.I.O.'s United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers to bargain for them...
Clark's black list of 90 organizations, compiled from the files of the FBI and other Government bureaus, contained no surprises to newsmen and others who cover the Communist front. Under the Communist Party, it listed seven "affiliate" committees, among them the Labor Research Association Inc. and the Committee to Aid the Fighting South. It listed several disbanded outfits, but it did not include several large organizations whose leaders' pursuit of the Communist line has made them suspect in Congress and elsewhere.* Now labeled by the Government as "Communist or subversive" were these busy and noisy organizations...