Word: ince
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, the flood had reached Manhattan. From 60 loudspeakers spotted throughout the wide halls and rabbit warrens of Grand Central Terminal, commuters were pursued by the Blue Danube and the persuasive commercial. F. LeMoyne Page, president of Terminal Broadcasting, Inc., promised to "permeate the whole place" with music broken every 2½ minutes by commercial spot-announcements. "Right now," said Page, '"we're experimenting with the difference in volume caused by the number of people. Ideally, we'd like to develop a 'thermostatic-type' control that would set the volume to the changing volume...
...familiar gold-and-black "A. Schulte" cigar-store signs on 186 busy streetcorners in the East and Midwest will be coming down soon. Up in their places will go flashy new signs reading: "D. A. Schulte, Inc., Fashion Haberdashery for Men & Women.'' Instead of cigar stores that dabbled in men's ties, shirts and socks, this week Schulte's was turning itself into clothing stores that dabbled in tobacco...
...walnut-paneled room in Washington, the Civil Aeronautics Board opened preliminary meetings last week to see if National Airlines, Inc. should be put out of business. The case for dismemberment was strong last year: hit by a ten months' strike and hurt by CAB's grounding of all DC-6s, National lost almost half its passenger traffic, turned in a $1,946,041 deficit in 1948. But last week, National's President George T. ("Ted") Baker was hardly acting like a man who expected to shut up shop. He announced that he would launch a new, luxury...
...mean a low-budget picture with a future. He gives this movie some unexpected authenticity because he is capable of crossing black & white traits in a role without showing his hand. The standard rackets-film types include Thomas Gomez as a mobster who operates a sort of Murder, Inc. for Stalin, and Janis Carter as a party moll with a lazily upper-class voice and a glassy manner. The movie's one original character is a popeyed, free-lance killer (William Talman) with a jitterbug personality. Best scene: the free lance collecting his pay with the boyish happiness...
Killian's was not the only store to discover that free flowers attract bargain-hunting females. In Manhattan, James McCreery & Co.'s department store holds an orchid day once a month, hands out 100,000 free blossoms a year. When Chicago's Spiegel, Inc. opens a new retail store in its widespread chain, it pins orchids on its women customers...