Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...switches; he could sound in turn like a reactionary, a radical, an ignoramus or a bohemian. As an unpredictable intellectual, he singlehandedly derricked the foundering Saturday Review of Literature out of a hole in 1941 with a check for $22,500 (and when Editor Norman Cousins offered to have papers drawn up, replied: "We shook hands, didn't we?"). Later, when Cousins turned up in Dallas to speak at a meeting of the pacifist Society of Friends, local right-wingers tried to set up a boycott, went to Mr. De for support. Snapped...
...whenever he becomes Britain's Prime Minister. Last week former Supreme Allied Commander Alfred Gruenther, long impregnable to a bombardment of invitations by the three programs, maneuvered a skillful surrender. At his request and in full view of Washington newsmen, a Pentagon pressagent solemnly dropped three slips of paper into a hat, each marked with the name of a different show. Then, eyes averted, he fished out the winner: Face the Nation, which triumphantly booked him for this Sunday's show...
Rossby's main contribution to numerical forecasting, besides his discovery of the long waves, is his simplified equations, which treat the atmosphere as if it were as two-dimensional as a sheet of paper. Looked at in the large, this is not far from true. The part of the atmosphere that concerns the weather is only some seven miles deep, and it covers the surface of a globe 8,000 miles in diameter. Proportionately, it is much thinner than the skin of an apple...
...week the Justice Department struck hard at the industry's urge to merge. In an antitrust suit filed against Owens-Illinois Glass Co., it asked that the No. 1 U.S. glass-container maker (1955 sales: $370 million) be forced to sell off National Container Corp., the No. 3 paper-container maker (1955 sales: $95 million), acquired in a stock swap last October...
Three Suits. The suit against Owens-Illinois was the third antitrust case against the container industry in three months. The Justice Department also wants Continental Can Co. to dispose of Hazel-Atlas Glass Co., the No. 2 U.S. glass-container maker, and Robert Gair Co., the No. 2 paper-container maker. Largely as a result of the mergers, Continental Can sales jumped from $666 million in 1955 to more than an estimated $1 billion in 1956, and the company passed its traditional rival, American Can Co., to become the No. 1 U.S. container maker...