Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With his brewery profits, Soriano has bought mines, dairies, factories, forests, a radio station, owns the third largest Coca-Cola bottling franchise in the world, acts as Philippine agent for five insurance firms, distributor for Philip Morris cigarettes and Lord Calvert whiskey. Nor are his interests purely local. He controls Kansas City's George Muehlebach Brewing Co., bosses gold mines in British East Africa, a development company in Spain. His holdings stretch so far & wide that one top executive, who has been with him 15 years, says: "I still haven't been able to memorize even the names...
...carefully denied that he had intended to tip anyone. In fact, he said, he had gotten his dope out of a broker's letter reporting that Walter Mack, onetime boss of Pepsi-Cola, "was trying to buy control of N.P. & L. to be used as distributor for a new soft drink firm...
...signer" clause forces all retailers to adhere to a price fixed by a distributor, once the distributor has signed a price fixing contract with any retailer...
...began when the chief of police scooped up a lot of 25? reprints off newsstands, surveyed a collection of busty, flamboyant dames on the book jackets, and accused a distributor of peddling obscene literature. Then County Attorney John Duffy, a Notre Dame graduate who takes his knowledge of literature seriously looked over the evidence. The obscene books turned out to include bestsellers by Somerset Maugham, MacKinlay Kantor and John Steinbeck, and a collection of art masterpieces which had in it nudes by Velasquez and Titian. He dismissed the charge and for doing so forthwith got the clubwomen on his neck...
...picture's distributor, Joseph Burstyn, unable to get a stay of enforcement, brought action in the appellate division of the state supreme court, where he will probably get a hearing early next month. Conceding the right of Catholics to object to The Miracle, Burstyn protested that "an organized minority is dictating through various pressure tactics to the entire citizenry of the state what it may or may not see in the movies...