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Word: ince (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charter flight from Montreal, it was past midnight. The weather had closed down. For more than an hour, Pilot Pell, a veteran of 7,000 hours of transport flying, flew about in the woolly dark with his three passengers-Thomas Mandell, treasurer of Boston's Carrier-Mandell Inc. (airconditioning) and Mandell's two daughters. At 2:21 a.m., he started to descend. Below him as his little Stinson got near the ground, was a row of lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: The Furnace | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...producers also charged a breach of faith. The tax came just as they were negotiating a voluntary reduction in their "take-home" earnings from Britain. They had sent Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Export Association, Inc. (as well as of the Motion Picture Association of America) to London to work out a solution. He came back with a dozen different proposals for Hollywood to consider, including one to hold part of the movie companies' earnings in blocked accounts in England. But before he even submitted them to producers, Britain fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: War | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...comic-strip improbables, was smashing all sales records. Sales reached 15,100 (at $6 per head) in the first ten days, were expected to exceed $1,000,000 in retail value by Christmas. "Simply phenomenal," said the doll's proud parent, the Ideal Novelty & Toy Co., Inc. "It appears that sales of this one doll in the five remaining months of the year will exceed the output of the entire doll industry for any year in the past two decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Aug. 18, 1947 | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

RUSSELL HOLMAN Eastern Production Manager Paramount Pictures Inc. New York City

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 11, 1947 | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...Under a $200,000 grant from TIME Inc. and $15,000 from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Free & Uneasy | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

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