Word: switcheroo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chuck, and he was happy. But soon he was in his usual jam -the boys found the camping ground cold and hard, and so did he; he bundled them all off to a motel, and everybody thought he had kidnaped them. Scripter John Vlahos could not resist the predictable switcheroo for a misty-moist ending (the Rangers discovered the publicity on the Beaver Patrol had been sensational, and Uncle Chuck finally felt wanted), sometimes seemed to be writing an artful recruiting appeal for parent participation in youth groups. But his simple story was redeemed by an authentic feel...
...corporate merger, it is usually the big company that buys a smaller one. Last week Boston's up & coming Tracerlab, Inc. pulled a switcheroo. Tracerlab, which grossed only $1,700,000 last year, bought the much bigger ($8,000,000 gross) Kelley-Koett Mfg. Co. of Covington, Ky., one of the oldest and biggest U.S. X-ray equipment manufacturers...