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Corn flakes and chocolate candy, liquor bottles and laundry detergent: all these products and many more are sold in folding paperboard cartons. Now the Government is saying that for about 14 years the prices of these containers -and by extension the total prices of products that come in them-were kept higher than they should have been. Last week a federal grand jury in Chicago indicted 23 corporations and 50 present and former executives of 19 of those companies for conspiring to fix prices in the folding-carton industry...
...indictment are unnamed, unindicted co-conspirators -undoubtedly companies that cooperated with the Justice Department's investigation. That suggests a Government belief that price fixing extended not just to 70% of box sales, but also to almost the industry's total volume. In terms of annual sales, the carton case is the Justice Department's largest price-fixing indictment since 1964, when eight defendants were accused of collusion in the sheet-steel industry...
...shots within a head target at 263 ft. within twelve seconds. Marina Oswald testified that she had heard Oswald practicing the rifle's bolt action outside their Dallas home in 1963. From the Book Depository building, Oswald also had the benefit of resting his gun on a book carton and steadying his grip with an arm sling...
Jill Ta llmer '76, one of the heads of the counselling organization, said yesterday Room 13 received a carton of Terry Southern's "Blue Movie" along with the expected shipment of "Student Guide...
After reading "Total Fascination" it became apparent to me that I could simplify my struggle to be a Total Person by concentrating on being a Total Woman. So I slipped a note that read, "I crave your body" into my husband's carton of blackberry yogurt. My husband immediately wrote to the yogurt company and explained what he had found in his lunch. The company wrote back, most apologetically, explaining that one of their notes might read, "Your body craves this," or "We love your business," but certainly not "I crave your body...