Word: ince
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bombers before the U.S. gets around to closing the missile gap. To assure that SAC keeps ahead of Soviet air defense progress, SAC's Power and the Air Force Chief of Staff, General Thomas D. White, want to start placing orders for North American Aviation Inc.'s B70 bomber, designed to fly at three times the speed of sound. In its money requests for fiscal 1961, the Air Force asked for $464 million to get started on a B70 program. The Administration slashed the request to $70 million, which will buy two militarily worthless prototype...
...makers of tranquilizers had reason to down a few pills themselves last week. In a Manhattan federal court, the U.S. Justice Department charged that two of them had conspired to monopolize the $40 million-a-year market for meprobamate, better known as Miltown or Equanil. The defendants: Carter Products, Inc., recent loser in a 17-year struggle with the FTC to preserve the "Liver" in Carter's Little Liver Pills, and giant (1959 sales: $450 million) American Home Products, which sells 90 household products, from Chef Boy-Ar-Dee ravioli to Anacin and Preparation H (for hemorrhoids). Trustbusters charged...
...page report entitled "Paying for Better Public Schools," C.E.D. suggests that rising prosperity alone will produce enough new money to hold the gains. But is this enough? Far from it, says Ralph Lazarus, head of C.E.D.'s educational subcommittee and president of Federated Department Stores Inc. "We cannot pay for better schools just by continuing our present effort. We should do more than this minimum-and we can afford...
...selling unregistered stock in a phony cancer cure, he arranged to have the underwriter of record appear as a Washington firm in which his brother-in-law had originally had a one-third interest. This firm has the fancy title of Investment Bankers of America, Inc., a name confusingly close to the august Investment Bankers Association of America, also with headquarters in Washington...
Home Cooler. A silent electric water cooler that takes up less than a square foot of space, weighs 37 lbs., has no moving parts, cools to 50° a half-gallon of water per hour and is primarily designed for the home, was introduced by Arrowhead & Puritas Waters Inc. Rent: $2.90 a month...