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CORPORATE MERGERS will find the going rougher. The Federal Trade Commission has slapped Foremost Dairies (39 dairy companies acquired since 1951) with a complaint charging "constant and systematic elimination of actual and potential competitors" with the result that Foremost boosted sales from $52 million in 1950 to $375 million in 1954. FTC Chairman John W. Gwynne has also asked Congress for new powers to require advance notice of all mergers in excess of $10 million, and stronger powers to dissolve mergers that have already taken place...
...little rougher and faster now, but the same poise and strength and balance were undeniably there. Two of his scoring plays were typical. Late in the first period against B.C., he picked the puck up near the boards just inside the Eagle blueline, bulled and faked his way around two defensemen, and then cut sharply in front of the cage. He had a good opportunity to shoot, but, typically, he passed to Wimpy Burtnett, who, standing near the post, had a better opportunity and scored...
Sometimes the estimators were far rougher. Prince Alessandro Torlonia, son-in-law of Spain's former King Alfonso XIII, claimed that his income was $42,400; the collectors estimated...
...Germany had staked its claim to control the barge traffic, Chancellor Adenauer called his advisers in emergency session in Bonn to consider countermeasures. Shutting canal locks in West Berlin to East German barges, or stopping East German goods at Hamburg, would hurt the Communists, but not enough. A much rougher blow would be halting East Germany's $48 million-a-year trade with West Germany. Communist East Germany in particular needs steel and heavy machinery...
...suspicions were understandable. With industry spending a record $27.3 billion on expansion this year, almost every state, county and city in the nation is hungrily trying to lure new industries. Says Victor Roterus, area development chief for the U.S. Commerce Department: "Competition to get new industry has never been rougher...