Word: behemoths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though their numbers have gradually declined with the spread of merger-seeking corporations, firms that have stuck to private ownerships have proved that they can compete with and outdo the Goliaths by concentrating on specialty products. San Francisco's family-owned Levi Strauss & Co., the behemoth of blue jeans, has a new wrinkle-or, rather, an unwrinkle. It has just begun worldwide marketing of hot-selling "Sta-Prest" pants, which are treated with resin, then baked in 325° ovens until they have a permanent crease...
...pageant waggons too-set to perform everywhere from ye Bronx to ye Staten Island, and even before ye Bobby Wagner, the mayor. Belonging to Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival, they are not quaint old tumbrels. They are a caravan of six trucks, led by a big, behemoth trailer truck that disassembles like a Chinese puzzle. In four hours, they collectively become a fully lighted, handsomely equipped Elizabethan theater. In addition to the free, summerlong Shakespeare that the festival group offers in its stationary theater in Central Park, the new road company is taking A Midsummer Night...
Croasdale's chief obstacle will be North-easteru behemoth Bill Corsetti, whose 196' 7 1/2" hammer toss is the nation's best by a collegian this spring...
...blond behemoth also excels in the hammer throw, where he took first place in the Penn relays with a 179' 10" toss...
Wallin is favored in the shot put, where he has registered a 57 ft., 4 1/2 in. heave. Crimson junior Art Croasdale should be a solid second. Another Northeastern behemoth, Bill Corsetti, is the first choice in the hammer throw, but Croasdale just might upset this husky Huskie. Corsetti has a 196 ft., 7 1/2 in. effort to his credit, the nation's best throw by a collegian this spring, but Croasdale topped him in the Penn relays when the Northeastern star was plagued by foul trouble...