Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back up his complaint by playing his much-publicized tape. "People may want to make a sacred cow out of this boy Elliott, but they'll want to hang him, yessir, hang him, when I tell the true story on this deal." But at week's end Leo made plans to leave Australia. The tape, he explained lamely, was in Tokyo, "so how could I play it here...
UPJOHN CO., only privately owned ethical drug company among top five U.S. drug houses, will end 72-year family ownership to become publicly held firm. Upjohn plans to give present stockholders 25 shares in new firm for each one held in old, with option to sell shares publicly...
...this, nobody is aiming at the real bargain, such as the genuine month-end clearance, the special purchase, distress merchandise, the end-of-the-season markdown of broken lots. But what the FTC, the Better Business Bureaus and merchandising groups (such as the National Retail Merchants Association) want to end are the phony price-cuts. The merchants, many of whom have prodded the FTC to get tougher, feel that if they do not voluntarily police their industry, Congress will step in and do it for them-just as the Monroney law outlawed phony price-packing by auto dealers...
...Roncalli. He heard the ancient Latin formula: "Receive the tiara adorned with three crowns and know that thou art the father of princes and of kings, Pontiff of the whole world, and vicar on this earth of our Saviour, Jesus Christ, to whom is honor and glory, world without end...
...when Novelist Frederic Wakeman sent Adman Victor Norman into the high-salary altitudes of The Hucksters, he let his man enjoy the big, bad money for a while, then shot him down in a barrage of hack-ack. But the new heroes do not come to bad ends. They are drumbeatniks who brood during a few drinks about the morality of what they are doing, then get over it. Author Stephens' hero, for instance, guiltily grows an ulcer after he rings in an infected blood sample in the yearly Wassermann test the agency requires his boss to take...