Word: starching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year's wave of corporate takeovers already has swept up companies dealing in copper, oil, paper, beer, aspirin and dozens of other products. Last week the tide spread to retailing and starch. Los Angeles-headquartered Carter Hawley Hale, the sixth largest U.S. department store chain, proposed buying Chicago's venerable Marshall Field & Co. for an estimated $325.8 million - over Field's resistance. And Unilever United States Inc., a subsidiary of the giant Anglo-Dutch food and household products maker, bid $482 million for National Starch & Chemical Corp. of New Jersey, a maker of food products, plastics...
...retailing and starch...
...their copies and then waited patiently for public readings of their hero's latest adventure. Taking advantage of the strip's popularity, the government hung posters of the Phantom in villages to drive home its pleas for tooth-brushing and the substitution of protein-rich peanuts for starch in diets (the natives swiped the posters for the walls of their huts...
...19th century humorist's letters and notebooks. They contain their share of Twainian "stretchers," or exaggerations. From the gold camps of the West he wrote: "I have had my whiskers and moustaches as full of alkali dust that you'd have thought I worked in a starch factory and boarded in a flour barrel." Twain might have been less than joyous about the whole affair; he once said that "all private letters of mine make my flesh creep when I see them again after a lapse of years...
...livelier and more imaginative than the starchy BBC, known in the trade as "Aunty." In 1972 Aunty tried to go trendy by installing a Huntley-Brinkley-type team of two anchor men, modernizing its set and spicing up its copy with breezy backstairs language. But when the old BBC starch was gone, what was left proved limp and ITV'S inroads continued...