Word: midgeted
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...more than a year, while the Justice Department has grown more cautious about pressing antitrust suits and opposing mergers, the Federal Trade Commission has become increasingly aggressive. Last week, in one of its boldest actions yet, the FTC moved to turn a giant into a midget. The commission ordered Maremont Corp. of Chicago, a leader in the automotive-parts field, with sales last year of $186 million, to a Washington hearing next month. The agency's aim is nothing less than to make Maremont sell off 40 companies that accounted for about $100 million of the total...
...strikes go, it was a midget involving a mere 1,250 workers. In terms of damage, it could turn out to be mammoth. With the St. Lawrence Seaway closed by a labor dispute for the first time in its nine-year life, growing economic dislocations last week rippled across eight U.S. states and much of Canada...
...Another midget, a boy this time, lollypop stuck to his palm, arms upheld by baloons tied to his wrists, ready for flight, came over to tend to his sister. For a moment there was a joyful reunion...
...Staten, the mother of 10, so old and bent she seemed a midget, explained: "I attended this meeting here when I was able. I sent my children to Marks High School (the white high school). The agent kept pickin' on me. Last Tuesday, a week ago, I got a letter said we're going to have to move because they need the house by the 15th. It didn't say it was because of school, but I know the agent, Mr. Webbs. He always wanted to know what kind of meeting this was. 'You know enough already...
Lytton has made a career of living up to that flamboyant self-assessment. While competitors derisively nicknamed him "Black Bart," and grew apoplectic at his unbankerlike antics, he built his savings and loan holding company from a 1958 midget into a $685 million-asset mammoth, fifth largest in the U.S. And he burnished his status by becoming a patron of the arts, a party-giving friend of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and state finance chairman (from 1958 to 1962) of the Democratic Party...