Word: packer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Resuming the straight life, Biggs earned $95.26 a week as a carpenter and was eager for Saturday overtime of $27.94. Charmain, after the birth of a third son, worked the 4 to midnight shift as a packer in a toilet-tissue plant. "That's the laugh of the whole thing," she said after her husband fled the police with $40 in his pocket. "You don't work at night in a factory when you have hidden resources." Only occasionally did the Biggses splurge. On their last big evening out, a month ago, a Melbourne nightclub photographer snapped...
...career. Abraham Goldstein, professor of law at Yale, is among those who believe that Dinis should have brought the case before a grand jury, which would have conducted its hearings in secret. "The whole investigative process could be pursued more reasonably with a grand jury." says Goldstein. Professor Herbert Packer of Stanford's law school disapproves altogether of Dinis' handling of the case. "It's just one incompetence after another," he says. "What Dinis has assured himself of is maximum publicity, which is what I suspect he wanted...
After Gulf & Western was blocked by the Justice Department from taking over Armour & Co., Charlie Bluhdorn attempted to resell his 750,000 shares to the meat packer for about $60 per share. He thought he had a deal?and an $18 million profit?but Armour Chairman William Wood Prince tried a squeeze play to drive the price down to $50. His method was ingenious. Armour made a public offer to repurchase 20% of its own outstanding shares at $50 each. If successful, the move would have increased Bluhdorn's stake in Armour from 9.8% to 12½%, thus making Gulf & Western...
...bestseller (4,400,000 sales in paperback alone) has clearly inspired others to deal with the devil. Among them: The Mephisto Waltz by Fred Mustard Stewart (a pianist kills and inhabits the body of a long-fingered friend), and Don't Rely on Gemini by Vin Packer (the Corsican brothers in outer space). The last author is pseudonymous, but he has to come from Green...
Armour & Co., the second biggest packer, was the first to recognize the need for change, and is spending $250 million on new facilities. Now Swift, the biggest of all, has joined the renaissance. It is closing 250 antiquated plants, and will spend $143 million on new, decentralized packing and slaughtering houses. They will replace cumbersome, multistory buildings in such places as Kansas City and Omaha. Says Vice President Paul Steinbrink: "We are moving closer to the sources of supply, where the animals...