Word: suited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the U.S. packaging industry has grown larger and larger-multiplying its volume sixfold in the past quarter-century -the number of companies has grown smaller and smaller. Last 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...
...weeks ago, a lady looking for a dinosaur called up the Student Employment Office. In charge of a local fashion show, she wanted to hire someone to appear in a dinosaur suit "for atmosphere." A suitable person was supplied the same day her call was received...
This personal interest does not stop after freshman year, although the check system generally does. By that time the Office generally knows what jobs will suit a student best, and it can offer a wide assortment to any regular worker...
...last October pitched the only perfect game in World Series history, finally got around to paying his estranged wife, mother of his 16-month-old daughter, some $400 in support arrears. Then Vivian Larsen, a former Baltimore telephone operator married to Larsen last year, dropped her separation suit against him, thus unfroze Larsen's $8,714.76 share of series money...