Word: united
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louisiana federal court found the New Orleans Times-Picayune (circ. 175,000) and its afternoon sister, the States, guilty of unfair competition, more than 170 papers all over the U.S. viewed the situation with understandable alarm. The court had upheld the trustbusters' charge that the papers' unit ad rate (forcing advertisers to place ads in both papers if they wanted space in either one) was a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act (TIME, June 9, 1952). Other publishers who also use the unit rate feared that the decision against the T-P and States would upset an advertising...
This week, in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled the verdict against the T-P and States, declared that the unit rate used by the papers was not in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. Although the Government had argued that the T-P and States system "forced" a rate on advertisers, the Supreme Court ruled that the Government failed to prove unfair competition. Said Justice Tom Clark for the majority: "We do not determine that unit advertising arrangements are lawful in other circumstances or in other proceedings. Our decision adjudicates solely that this record cannot sustain...
...their midst. He wanted to use fine French, Swiss and Italian cloth in his $120 suits and coats, but found that it was too expensive. Reason for its high price was that European textile mills were accustomed to making a large number of weaves in small quantities at high unit cost. "The high prices," says Lilli Ann's Schuman, "were not caused by high labor costs but by lack of planned, consecutive production and costly distribution methods...
Just as the dormitory is a self-contained unit, so is every floor. Each of the four floors of Moors Hall is a going community with a personality all its own. With a smoker, a communal washroom, a kitchen, and ironing boards of its own, every floor fuses its occupants into a unit...
...Neal McNaughton. engineering manager of the NARTB, forecast worldwide TV within ten years, explained: "The answer to global television lies in a submarine cable that will use a transistor repeater unit, smaller than a cigarette, to augment microwave relays between the continents of the world...