Word: suited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trustbuster Stanley N. Barnes prefers to win his victories over business monopolies by the polite method of the consent decree.* But in the 20 months since he filed an antitrust suit against the $390 million United Fruit Co., Assistant Attorney General Barnes has been unable to negotiate any settlement with the company...
...MONOPOLY SUIT has been filed against American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp. Justice Department charges that American-Standard (40% of the iron bathtubs, 38% of the sinks) "substantially" reduced competition by buying Mullins Manufacturing Corp. (18% of the sinks). Suit demands that American-Standard divest itself of Mullins stock and assets...
...suit of olive drab is popularly supposed to turn U.S. comrades in arms into brothers under the skin. That it frequently does nothing of the sort gives Novelist Joe David (Stars in My Crown) Brown the chance to mount a kind of two-front war novel in which the rasp of conflicting personalities can be heard above the whine of shells. The psychological combat in Kings Go Forth is sometimes emotionally blurred, though deeply felt, but the scenes of military combat flare across the pages as vividly as tracers stabbing the night...
...January 1954 issue Confidential called Editor Stuart, among other things, an admitted extortioner, a hate peddler and a coddler of Communists. To keep the $9,000 in settlement of his $250,000 suit (and presumably to keep Confidential's vulnerability confidential). Stuart had to agree not to discuss the case or publicize it beyond printing the outcome in his paper. Confidential's lawyers can now turn their attention to the magazine's other libel suits filed by such better-known figures as Doris Duke, Errol Flynn and Robert Mitchum, and totaling at the latest count...
PARTNERSHIP PROJECT for the Priest Rapids Dam in Washington state will get under way soon. Major legal obstacle to the big dam, a suit challenging disposition of power sale contracts, has been withdrawn, and the Grant County Public Utility District will soon award the construction contract. Apparent low bidder: Merritt-Chapman & Scott, for $91.8 million...