Word: ince
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With money from its first public stock issue last February, B.V.D. has acquired four firms. First was Beau Brummel Ties, Inc., which has sales of $4,000,000 and is the only moneymaker Kittay ever bought. Next came Mullins Mills and County Mills, which together sell $20 million in knitted outerwear. Two months ago, Kittay moved into women's undergarments, bought Flexees International, which makes girdles, bras and swim suits. Using prudent aggression, Kittay hopes eventually to lift B.V.D. to first place from its present fourth place in men's underwear, behind Fruit of the Loom, Cooper...
Edmund Haines: Concertino for Seven Solo Instruments and Orchestra (Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra, Guy Fraser Harrison conducting; Composers Recordings, Inc.). A high-spirited, multi-gaited piece that has its moments of surrealist shiftiness and of sheer pyrotechnics. One movement-the third-stands out with a lovely, brooding string solo. Expertly rendered by the first-desk men of the orchestra...
...transistor system that in turn controls the high current needed by the coil. Manufacturers claim that such systems save fuel, give more fire power, make both points and plugs work indefinitely at top efficiency at any speed. An even more rewarding system produced by New Jersey's Motion Inc. includes a capacitor that is charged by the high-tension current that is normally fed directly from coil to spark plugs. The capacitor delivers a short hot spark even when a feeble battery is painfully trying to start a cold engine in zero weather...
...frame slats and decided to make doll furniture with them. Thanks to the doll furniture, Elliot Handler and his wife Ruth cleared $30,000 on sales of $100,000 that year. The Handlers have never quite matched that profit margin, but in the 17 years since then their Mattel, Inc. has joined the front rank of U.S. toymakers. Last year Mattel earned $4,000,000 on sales of $49,400,000. And in the first half of this year, the Handlers happily told the New York Society of Security Analysts last week. Mattel's sales jumped a whopping...
Crane Brinton, one of the three co-authors, said that all copyright privileges for the text have been turned over to the publishers, Prentice-Hall Inc. Brinton, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, stated that the public schools were entirely within their rights at attempting to enforce separation of church and state...