Word: maker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last union stalwarts of New Deal days, Polish-born Dubinsky as a youth was banished to Siberia for calling a strike against his father's bakery, escaped, emigrated to the U.S., and joined the union at 19 as a buttonhole maker in Manhattan's "lung blocks" (so called because of their high TB incidence...
...nearing such a doctrine in 1962 when it ordered Procter & Gamble to sell off Clorox Chemical Co., which P. & G. had acquired seven years earlier (TIME, Dec. 24). At the time of acquisition, Clorox held 49% of the U.S. market for liquid household bleaches. By buying the biggest bleach maker, the FTC contended, P. & G. avoided the risks of going into the field on its own, and thereby lessened competition. Moreover, as the nation's biggest advertiser, P. & G. gets substantial discounts from the TV networks. This, said the FTC, gave it such a large promotional advantage that...
...seizure symbolized FDA determination to start acting under powers granted it by Congress in 1962 to prevent the sale of drugs for which overblown advertising claims have been made. In last week's test case, the victim was the Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co., maker of some of the best-known products on the market (Listerine, Bromo-Seltzer, Dentyne, Smith Bros. cough drops...
Patience of Penelope. The combine is led by France's biggest aluminum maker, Pechiney, but substantial minority interests are held by Shipping Magnate Stavros Niarchos (21%), the U.S.'s Reynolds Metals (17%) and the Greek government (12%). Pechiney put up half the capital, has nine men on the 18-member board of directors, among them its own director-general, Pierre Jouven, who is chairman of the new company. What drew Pechiney to Greece, aside from the plentiful bauxite? Cheap labor, one of the Mediterranean's deepest harbors at Antikyra, and the Greek government's promise...
...amplified, and he gets extraordinary saxophone-like effects with it. On his first album, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (Elektra), he not only blows a wild-sweet harp but also shows that he is one of the best young bluesmen around by singing the likes of Shake Your Money-Maker and Thank You Mr. Poobah, vigorously backed by guitars, drums, organ and bass...