Word: ince
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks after President Kennedy gave U.S. traders the go-ahead on grain sales to Communist countries, the Commerce Department authorized the export of 2,600,000 bushels of corn to Hungary. The first sales, involving Minneapolis' Cargill Inc. and Manhattan's Continental Grain Co., amounted to $4,306,860-just a few kernels compared with the $250 million feast that is anticipated when the Communists start buying wheat...
Phillips Brooks House yesterday announced a new "book exposure" program designed to introduce Roxbury elementary students to the pleasures of reading. The program is being financed initially by the Massachusetts Council for Public Schools, Inc., a private organization dedicated to improving Boston schools...
...hounds when he has time, but Donald P. Kircher, 48, president of Singer Co., has recently been fully occupied guiding his company over the hurdles of diversification and expansion. Last week he took Singer a big jump closer to the billion-dollar club with the acquisition of Friden, Inc., a maker of office automation equipment that should fit in nicely with the 112-year-old sewing-machine maker and bring its annual sales to more than $750 million. Kircher has a firm rule that, within the U.S., his acquisitions must be in the high-growth area of fairly advanced technological...
Dozens of top companies have had a hand in building the Nimba facilities. The U.S.'s Raymond International Inc. laid the 167-mile railroad from Nimba to Buchanan and built a seaport there from breakwater up. The Netherlands' Phillips installed an electronic rail-traffic control system; Krupp made the ore-handling equipment. Aided by a maze of conveyor belts and closed-circuit TV control panels, LAMCO can load ore into a ship in less than nine hours after it has been mined. At the foot of Mount Nimba has grown up Liberia's third largest community, where...
...surprise announcement last night, Find-A-Bird, Inc. revealed that the Lampoon's Ibis has flown the coop. A spokesman for the organization, which until yesterday promised to return the bird to the Lampoon, would say only that the Ibis flew away from a Find-A-Bird agent yesterday afternoon...