Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beck, a labor giant with a turnip torso, of , cheating on his income taxes. In Manhattan one of the hottest security cases in years was unfolding behind grand jury doors with the confession of Communist Spies Jack and Myra Soble and their accomplice, Jacob Albam. In Pennsylvania Bethlehem Steel Corp. lawyers worked and planned against the multimillion-dollar possibility that their proposed merger with the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. might be adjudged a threat to a free economy. And in Tallahassee, Fla. a White Citizens' Council member spat disgustedly as he spoke of the same "nigger lovin' s.o.b...
...They are still watching and waiting. Relying heavily on the consent decree to accomplish the Government's purpose while avoiding long, costly court battles, Brownell's Justice Department has taken on such business giants as General Motors, International Business Machines, Pan American-Grace Airways and the Radio Corp. of America. General Lucius Clay, chairman of the Continental Can Co. and one of President Eisenhower's closest friends and advisers. is indignant at two antitrust suits filed against his company...
...tidy profit by selling cheese to the Government at one support price and buying it back a few days later at a lower price. The Justice Department is suing to recover $2,500,000. Again, Brownell clashed with the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and prominent banking interests because he wanted close federal control of bank holding companies...
...firms that are building the new industry include Italy's Montecatini, Germany's Uhde of Dortmund (an I. G. Farben subsidiary), Texas' Tif Co Inter America Corp. But the money and the management come strictly from the Venezuelan government. La Petroquímica's boss is Alberto J. Caldera, Director of Economy in the Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons. The venture puts the government, which already has investments in planes, ships, power and steel, deep into business. Caldera is outspokenly in favor of the trend: "We have the natural gas, we have the oil, we have...
...Love Lucy and 14 other shows, spends $21 million a year, employs up to 1,000 at peak periods, and produces more film footage than the combined output of the five major movie studios. ¶The two biggest talent agencies in U.S. show business, William Morris and the Music Corp. of America, now get $9 in fees from TV deals to every $1 they earn from the movies...