Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resigned and opened a new textile sales company just across the street from the institute in the heart of Tokyo's business district. Flashing the institute's name and his career there to get credit, the smiling and ever-courteous Murai bought large quantities of textile and paper supplies for wholesale distribution throughout Japan...
...last week set up a committee of top-level U.S. and Canadian businessmen, educators and labor leaders for a thorough study. The committee is headed by Quaker Oats Co. Chairman Douglas Stuart, onetime (1953-56) U.S. Ambassador to Canada, and Montreal Lawyer Robert Fowler, president of the Canadian Pulp & Paper Association. Among the likely points of focus for research...
...more than $1,000,000 in libel suits by its hard-hitting reporting. All the suits were later dropped. After buying the Miami Daily News in 1923, he covered Badman Al Capone's local activities so thoroughly that a gangster syndicate offered Cox $5,000,000 for the paper. The offer was turned down...
...usual, there were some minuses scattered among the plus signs. The slumping U.S. paper industry, beset by a drop in demand and steadily rising costs, reported uniformly lower earnings. International Paper Co. dipped from $21.4 million in 1956's second quarter to about $16.5 million in the same period this year; Brown Co. and Mead Corp. were down 5% and 10% respectively. Devoe & Raynolds Co., Air Reduction Corp. and Grace (W.R.) & Co. reported that first-half earnings were lower than last year's levels...
...work force in a few years. Furthermore, moonlighting is a powerful argument in itself against the shorter week, and against short hours v. the acquisitive nature of man. At an A.F.L.-C.I.O. conference on the shorter workweek in Washington, George Brooks, research director for the Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers, attacked the idea that workers themselves want shorter hours.' Said Brooks: "The evidence is all on; the other side. Hundreds of union officials have testified that the most; numerous and persistent grievances are from men deprived of a chance to make overtime pay. Workers are eager to increase...