Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bald format there is no dead space. Kelly's paintings are pervaded by a subtly indicated force, a sense of form working under confinement at several points above normal pressure. That Kelly is a most able draftsman can easily be seen from his pencil drawings of leaves and fruit - but in the abstract mode, he draws like a virtuoso. The decisiveness of the arc in Blue Curve, V, 1973, is (when seen in its large, actual size - it is about 6 ft. by 9 ft.) breathtaking; no other line, one senses, could have contained the buoyant, intrusive swell...
...president, has begun replacing the company's aging banana boats with modern container vessels. He has settled several antitrust suits, which were draining the firm of $ 1,000,000 a year in legal fees, by selling its Guatemalan banana division to Del Monte. In Central America, United Fruit had long been improving company-paid education, housing and medical care for plantation hands; Black has redoubled those efforts...
...fact, that is a condensed version of what has actually happened to United Fruit Co.-famed in the U.S. for Chiquita bananas, but known to generations of Latin Americans as "el Pulpo" (the Octopus). The Talmudist is Eli Black, who in 1970 merged United Fruit into a food-based conglomerate that he was assembling, and has proceeded to change its operations, its image, and even its name-to United Brands Co. The payoff: United Brands has gone from a net loss of $24 million in 1971 to a net profit of $10 million for this year's first half...
...United Fruit takeover made 52-year-old Eli Black one of the nation's largest conglomerateurs, and certainly its most mysterious. After graduating from Manhattan's Yeshiva University in 1940, he turned to investment banking, and in the late 1960s helped combine a group of small manufacturing companies into AMK Corp. As AMK chairman, he quickly transformed the company into an $840 million-a-year giant by acquiring John Morrell & Co., an ailing meat packer. He then noticed that United Fruit was ripe for picking: its earnings were dwindling, but it had cash reserves of $100 million...
...general, if you need a T-shirt, one can be bought at smaller expense (if you like BVD or Fruit of the Loom) at nearby Woolworths...