Word: foils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million in 1958, has picked up ten companies in three years. This week he bought the eleventh: National Metallizing Corp. of Trenton, N.J., which owns a process to coat paper with metal. Chandler is convinced that the new process is cheaper than present methods of laminating foil to paper, sees a big market for his product in wrappings of all kinds, even though competitors are working on similar processes...
...products. With a five-year growth map of what the market wanted, Chandler set about buying complementary companies, took in Sterling Products for its paper plates in 1956, Modern Packages for its flexible packaging material. In 1957 he added four box and label makers, last summer merged the Johnston Foil Mfg. Co., which laminated foil to paper. This year Chandler got his biggest acquisition: Eastern Corp. (1957 sales: $25 million), which will give Standard its own source of pulp. With current acquisitions, more than half of Standard's production goes to the food industry, which is where Chandler wants...
...several problems arise in connection with any plan for a neutralized Central Europe, which argue strongly against it. As an English commentator has pointed out, the Russians might probably foment internal disorder and then seize desired cities to foil "fascist plots." Hitler's precedent with the Sudeten Germans forms an instructive precedent which shows how effective this tactic can be. Could weakened NATO forces contest successive nibbles and would we dare to use massive retaliation against a small Russian move? In any case, a buffer zone plan seems to provide little more stability than exists at present. Demilitarizing Central Europe...
John Heffernan's portrayal of Larry, Hickey's foil, was more than adequate, although he did curious things with his face in moments of crisis. He and his crony Nick Smith (Don Parrit) were often hard to hear. The other half-dozen inmates were generally convincing, except Robert Foley's Jimmy...
Hope was abandoned that the 12-foot diameter plastic and aluminum foil balloon ever would be spotted...