Word: parently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...separate the company from its non-aviation interests, including a general manufacturing plant (stoves, frozen food storage units, etc.) in Nashville, Tenn., and part ownership of the ACF-Brill Motors Co. They will be incorporated in a new company, the Nashville Corp. By the deal, Convair's present parent, Victor Emanuel's Avco Manufacturing Corp., will get the controlling interest in the new company. Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp., Convair's second biggest stockholder, will take control of the aviation properties...
...distinguished visitor at the annual open house last Sunday--one of the few times non-parent adults are admitted--observed: "The Unites Nations could learn a lot out here...
...three weeks, the industry will issue about 25 new albums for the Christmas trade, a new peak. Records have changed greatly since those early days of Mother Goose (whose rhymes are still the No. 1 sellers). The accent now is on handsome $3-and-up albums, which many a parent has found surprisingly entertaining. Samples: Decca's album with Ginger Rogers as Alice in Alice in Wonderland, and MGM's gentle satire on big business, The Bear That Wasn't, with Comedian Keenan Wynn...
...method, the Department thinks, may revolutionize the bee business. At present the genetic lines of even the purest strains are apt to be crisscrossed with untraceable parent drones. When questionable strains are removed (by the $95 method), many new types can be bred. There will be long-tongued bees to suck nectar out of red clover flowers (only bumblebees can get it now). Cold-resisting bees will pioneer northerly regions. Efficient pollinators will be developed to fill the needs of orchardists. Exotic strains, such as giant bees and wasp-fighting bees from Asia, may contribute new, valuable qualities...
...Gary, Ind., 1,300 boys & girls gave up their parent-instigated strike to keep Negro children out of their school (TIME, Sept...