Word: supercolossus
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...Perfect Year The build-up was terrific. Sport pages groaned with the burden of adjectives striving to describe the forthcoming supercolossus. And when Army and Navy finally did get down to the business of beating each other's brains out, it certainly was a game of games...
...country's biggest business (replacing Fiat). The merger is between Montecatini, the huge chemical-minerals complex, and the Edison Group, a private power company that switched to heavy industry in order to survive when Italy nationalized power in 1962. The resulting giant, which Italians are already calling "the supercolossus," would have united sales of about $1.5 billion, would control 70% of Italy's chemical production and much of its pyrite, potassium, bauxite and glass output. At the news that the government had tentatively approved the merger and that it would shortly be submitted for stockholder approval, Edison...
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