Word: ince
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revolutionary aspect of the news TIME has to cover is the way in which Central Americans have long been used to changing their governments. During the last year, the job of reporting this news has fallen mainly to John Stanton, chief of TIME Inc.'s Mexico City bureau. Learning that he had just returned from an extensive trip through Central America, I asked him to amplify his experiences with the postwar revolutionists. This is his reply...
With motives almost as lofty as the potential profits, the Teen Age Book Club (sponsored by Marshall Field's Pocket Books, Inc.) set out a year ago to wean youngsters away from the comics. As more suitable fare for growing minds, a committee of teachers and librarians picked a list of 50 books ranging from Shakespeare's Tragedies to Damon Runyon Favorites. Last week the club celebrated its birthday by totting up first-year sales: the 90,000 members had bought nearly 600,000 books...
...designing, selling and overseeing the 300 fitters, seamstresses, etc. in her workshop, Sophie is paid $34,000 a year by her boss, who is also her husband-Adam Gimbel, president of Saks and cousin of Bernard Gimbel, president of the parent company, Gimbel Brothers, Inc...
Among the biggest deals was that of Leroy Healey, of Seattle's Barclay Co., Inc. Awkwardly he signed an order for $100,000 worth of mandarin oranges. The awkwardness was due to his lame right arm, which was torn from its socket by Japanese police in a wartime prison camp in Shanghai...
...space of four days, it demanded dissolution of alleged price-fixing agreements and competitive restraints among 1) eight major rubber companies and their Rubber Manufacturers Association; 2) twenty manufacturers of brake linings and clutch facings and their Brake Lining Manufacturers Association; 3) the Eastman Kodak Co. and Technicolor Inc., charged with monopolizing the processing of color film. This week, it impaneled a federal grand jury in Washington to investigate alleged price-fixing by oil companies...