Word: ince
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Texas waterworks, sizable chunks of five Rio Grande Valley banks, two small newspapers, bus systems in Austin and Waco, a San Antonio wholesale house, a silverware factory in Mexico, an inland waterway barge line, the Dixie Bus Lines, a Dallas chili plant, and 22% of Henry Holt & Co., Inc., Manhattan book publishers...
Narrowing Gap. Northwest Airlines, Inc. inaugurated the first regular service from New York to Tokyo, Shanghai and Manila via the "Great Circle" route-i.e., over the Aleutians and northwest Pacific. The new route will be flown thrice a week, will shorten trans-Pacific flying time by as much as 72 hours. New York-to-Tokyo fare...
Summer Dividend. To improve relations with its stockholders, McKesson & Robbins, Inc. offered them a free sample of its newest product, a suntan lotion. Of 17,000 holders of common stock, some 5,000 wrote right...
...over when the plow hit obstructions, became old Henry Ford's "only partner." Ford had stopped making his Fordson tractor in the '20s when it lost money. But for Ferguson, Ford made 306,181 tractors, this time with the Ferguson lift. They were sold exclusively by Ferguson, Inc., which relied heavily on Ford dealers...
...ability to make and sell a tractor of its own. Cut off by Ford, Harry Ferguson had managed to set up a manufacturing arrangement in England with Standard Motor Co. But in the U.S. he had no such luck. After shopping around, Roger Kyes, president of Ferguson, Inc., bought a surplus war plant in Cleveland and talked of floating $8,000,000 in stock and making Ferguson tractors...