Word: inces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week two more U.S. companies-Ebasco Services Inc., a subsidiary of the engineering and construction firm of Electric Bond and Share Co., and the investment firm of Allen & Co.-announced that they were combining resources and talents in the Kerman Development Corp., to study the possible development of 50,000 promising square miles of Iran's mountainous south central area...
...like merchandising; it is in our blood," said the top man in the nation's top department-store chain last week. For cherubic Fred Lazarus Jr., 73, chairman of Federated Department Stores, Inc., this enjoyment of selling has paid big dividends. Last year for the first time Federated edged Allied Stores as the nation's top retailer. Last week Federated reported its best earnings ever: six-month profits of $7.9 million from sales of $280 million...
...Painstaking work, with six rewritings between first draft and final text, went into the President's speech. Resolved that any speech he delivered to the General Assembly would be more than a mere retort to Soviet accusations. Ike called in C. D. Jackson, a vice president of TIME, Inc. and wartime civilian member of General Eisenhower's SHAEF staff, who had helped write the Atoms for Peace speech...
...aerial navigation: how to get a fix at great speed while all the usual sun and star angles are constantly changing. Solution: an instrument that records and remembers earth distance and direction traveled from a known starting point. One of the best systems was developed by North American Aviation, Inc. for the Navaho missile. The Navaho was scrapped, but last February the Navy ordered a Navaho guidance system installed in Nautilus. It was aboard the sub nine weeks later-and it seems likely to change marine navigation forever...
Died. Thomas E. Wilson, 90, retired board chairman of Chicago's meatpacking Wilson & Co., Inc., who helped organize the American Meat Institute, the National Live Stock and Meat Board, and the World War II fat-salvage campaign; in Lake Forest...