Word: zenith
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Scotch and sandwiches streamed into a suite in Chicago's Ambassador West Hotel for 48 hours straight last week. Inside, a dozen high-priced lawyers barely paused to refresh. When they did pause at last, patent-challenger Zenith Radio Corp. had finally pinned heavyweight champ Radio Corp. of America after eleven years of legal jujitsu. In the biggest antitrust recovery in history, Zenith settled for $10 million in its $61.7 million suit against...
...that the curare-makers shall operate in an isolated part of the forest; often they are required to refrain from sexual intercourse while a batch is being run, and women may be kept at a distance. In some tribes the work must be finished before the sun reaches the zenith (or interrupted then). Many refuse to put new curare into old bottles, insist on new containers (gourds, bamboo sections or earthenware jars...
Such liberal concepts, Hartz noted, challenged the traditional conservative concepts of the highly structured, ordered and disciplined society which had reached its zenith in the middle ages...
...large, subscription TV is still a troublesome issue held at arm's length by the Federal Communications Commission. FCC has dawdled over pleas by such big companies as Zenith and International Telemeter for the use of public TV channels to broadcast scrambled signals that only the set of a paying customer could unscramble. Toll TV is bitterly opposed by those it threatens most-TV networks and movie exhibitors...
...growth when the product is right for the market and pays off." Burns will also have to deal with charges of monopoly against RCA: Philco last week sued RCA in an attempt to break a patent pool through which RCA collects royalties on some 12,000 patents, and both Zenith and the Government are suing to break the pool. Another of Burns's major jobs will be to develop young executive material. If Burns succeeds in meeting the challenges at RCA, he will eventually take over as chief executive...