Word: inces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With the rise came a sharp upward pressure on housing costs. ARCHITECTURAL FORUM reported that the index of building-materials prices jumped 2.7% between January and June, against a 2% gain for the whole of 1958. But other prices were holding steady. Sears. Roebuck, Montgomery Ward. Spiegel, and Aldens Inc. announced that their fall catalogues will show no overall price increase, and some prices are lower...
...started when its president, a wartime aerial-reconnaissance expert named Richard Leghorn (M.I.T. '39), borrowed $142,000 from Laurance Rockefeller to buy two science-heavy organizations after the defense-spending cutback hit research in 1957. With these two-Physical Research Laboratories of Boston University and cash-shy Vectron. Inc. (electronics )-Itek began with a well-shaped organization (more than 100 scientists) that would have taken years to build. Though most of its work is classified, and identified only as "graphic retrieval,'' its stock soared from about $1.60 to $60 in a year, counting splits. Among other things...
Grounds for Arrest. In San Francisco, John Hagerman was spotted on a safecracking job at Fred Hudkins Inc. when he took time out to brew a cup of tea in the company lounge...
Died. Patricia Stevens Muntz, 45, owner of Patricia Stevens, Inc., largest combination modeling-agency-charm school in the U.S.; of heart failure (she left two farewell notes and an empty bottle of barbiturates under her deathbed); in Chicago. A onetime Powers model, Pat opened a small agency of her own in Chicago in 1942, over the years added ingenious beauty lures for plain girls, upped enrollment to 2,000, grossed over $1,000,000 a year, had 41 agencies in other cities. In her last days she quarreled bitterly over control of her business with second husband Earl ("Madman") Muntz...
THREE-STAGE FILTER cigarette is being test marketed by Philip Morris, Inc. Called Alpine, new mentholated smoke has two filters separated by air chamber. Smoke passes through first filter, is cooled in air chamber, then passes to final-stage filter...