Word: tins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maria Callas as Tosca is the final straw. As one who was present at this dull performance, I can testify that Callas looked like Audrey Hepburn, acted respectably and sang like a member of a second-rate road company. Your music critic either has low standards or a tin...
Revolution that Failed. Bolivia's inflation is the tragic result of a calculated-risk policy of deficit financing. The ruling Nationalist Revolutionary Movement (M.N.R.), seizing power in 1952, set off a historic, all-embracing economic and political revolution. M.N.R. nationalized the major industry, tin mining, confiscating the properties of the powerful tin barons. It revamped land tenure, giving indentured farm hands plots of their own -"like Lincoln's freeing the slaves," says President Hernan Siles Zuazo...
Simple Survival. The industry does not deny the trend, but many of its leaders argue that container mergers are a matter of simple survival. With plastics, foils and other new materials fast moving into the container field and taking over areas once dominated by the tin can and the glass jar, the oldtime companies must expand or be left behind. The company that sticks with one type of container could be stuck...
...outstanding holdout against industry-wide diversification is American Can Co., No. 1 tin-can maker, formerly top dog in the entire industry. Says American Can's President William C. Stolk: "We just don't want to acquire companies for the sake of expanding." But last year Canco expanded into fiber milk containers; this year it bought the Bradley Container Co. and branched into plastic bottles. Unless the Justice Department wins its antitrust cases, chances are the container industry will go right on making bigger packagers out of littler ones...
...instance, most of us are so disposed to admire the work of Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan that when Bentley points out how author and director got in each other's way in the production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the revelation comes as something of a shock. But Bentley is right: Williams did write what might be called a "dirty" play, and Kazan did do his best to dress it up in grandeur and golden light. And Bentley is right because, unlike most other drama critics writing today, he can see the implications of a production...