Word: ince
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present charge against Hoffa is that he and another Teamster official accepted more than $1,000,000 in illegal payments from a Detroit trucking concern. According to the indictment, Detroit's Commercial Carriers, Inc. in 1949 set up a Tennessee firm named Test Fleet. The new outfit leased trucks to Commercial Carriers. All the Test Fleet stock was transferred to Mrs. Hoffa and the wife of Owen ("Bert") Brennan, a Teamster vice president who died in 1961; the two women discreetly used their maiden names of Josephine Poszywak and Alice Johnson...
Then, observing that the dry martini is "viewed with almost reverent awe as a drink with unique power," science at last made a breakthrough: if the martini combats anxiety neurosis, as it does, what tonic would it be for jet noise? Acoustical engineers from Washington's Polysonics, Inc. threw up a simulated living room, filled it with the sound of jets taking off (at 80 decibels, which produces nuisance and anxiety), and assembled a "sound jury" composed of men between 30 and 44 with no special anxiety about noise-and none at all about martinis...
...market just waiting to be tapped," says Texan Jarrell McCracken. He can say that with a contented smile: at 35, he is president and chief stockholder of Word Records, Inc., the nation's largest producer of religious records...
...ingredients and heat them. The heated molecules move faster, and a few of them move so fast that when they collide they stick to each other, creating new compounds with built-in energy. Instead of this haphazard system, says Vice President Milton Farber of Arizona's Rocket Power Inc., it is better to slam the molecules at each other with precisely enough energy to make them stick...
...avid hunters and campers know, L. L. Bean Inc. is a profitable anachronism hidden away in the snowy pine forests of northern New England. Bean's wilderness wares are acknowledged to be among the world's best, and each day as many as 5,000 letters flow into the company's rambling yellow factory and mail order headquarters in Freeport, Me. (pop. 4,000). Not long ago, someone in Bali offered to swap two native wood carvings for a pair of Bean hunting boots, and the deal was made. But despite the countless thousands of flashlights, snowshoes...