Word: scrapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many as 150 alcoholics-on-the-mend line up for their shots of vitamin B12. The nerve-soothing vitamins are paid for partly by the Corktown Guild, whose members are mostly bartenders, and partly by the Corktown Coop, made up of men trying to rehabilitate themselves, who scavenge scrap to raise the money for their injections...
...giants rarely compete on the basis of price. But they insist that they are competitive as well as clubby. "Personally, we may all be the best of friends," says Shell Managing Director Tim Wilkinson, "but after we say goodbye to each other, we go back to our offices and scrap like hell." At a time when profit margins are dwindling, one favorite way of hitting a competitor is to make it as expensive as possible for him to move into a new market. In Morocco, an old Shell market that Jersey Standard raided after the war, the Group applied...
...million), turned out such diverse products as tires, rocket engines, tennis balls, plastics, steel, wrought iron, movies and girdles. The reason for so many far-flung enterprises, explains O'Neil blithely, is that "I wanted enough diversification so that my sons wouldn't have to scrap with each other." Last week Board Chairman O'Neil shuffled General Tire's management, laid out new areas of command for his sons; he named Son Michael Gerald ("Jerry"), 38, to be General Tire's new president; Thomas Francis, 45, vice chairman of the board; John James, 42, chairman...
...wins, Maine will not lose its distaff distinction. Last week the Democratic minority leader of the Maine legislature, popular, plump Lucia Cormier, 48, tossed her bonnet in the ring to oppose Maggie Smith's third-term bid. For the first time in U.S. history, two women are to scrap for a Senate seat...
...McCartan and his U.S. teammates came of age at Squaw Valley. Against the hard-shooting Canadians, Goalie McCartan turned acrobat to stop 39 shots, save the day while his buddies made up for their lack of teamwork by scrap and scramble...