Word: inces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...precocious teen-age pupil of Murder Inc.'s Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter, urbane, well-tailored Iceberg Johnny Dio, 43 (real name: Dioguardi), was belatedly packed off for a three-year stretch at Sing Sing by Racket Buster Tom Dewey in 1937. The charge: extorting protection money from garment district truckers and cloak-and-suiters. Long out of stir and prospering by 1950, Dio became a smoother thug, refined his old muscle technique to set up "paper locals" (no rights, few members), shook down businessmen with threats of "labor violence" and picketing. So powerful grew "Mr. Dee" that two months...
Geography's place is "to keep an eye on the stage on which political organization is played", concluded Edward A. Ackerman, Director of the water resources program of Resources for the Future, Inc...
...broke into the black, now pays Walt Disney some of his most handsome dividends since Mickey Mouse. The Disney family owns 48% interest in Walt Disney Productions, which in turn owns 66% of Disneyland's 14,500 shares; the remaining shares are held by American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Inc...
Tornado Alarm. To predict local tornadoes, which often come up too suddenly for the Weather Bureau to forecast, Tornado, Inc., of Oklahoma City, will soon market a barometer with an electrical contact point that sets off an alarm buzzer when atmospheric pressure dips to a dangerous level. Battery-powered signal is small enough to fit in the glove compartment of a car, will give 20 minutes' notice of tornado-producing conditions, says the inventor. Price...
...first steps toward harnessing the atom. It operates a nuclear research laboratory outside Frankfurt and is building a heavy-water plant (annual capacity: six tons) that will be among Europe's biggest when completed this year. Last week, with Atomic Energy Commission approval. North American Aviation Inc. sent to Hoechst the final parts of a 50-kw. U.S. nuclear research reactor that uses heavy water. Hoechst will donate the reactor to Frankfurt University, which will conduct nuclear experiments for Hoechst and other German companies...