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...less than "extensive divestiture of United's lands now actually used for the production of bananas in the tropics." Breaking up the company at the growing end would presumably give jobbers competitive sources of supply. But the trustbuster added that despite 16 extensions of time to answer the complaint. "United has made no satisfactory offer to settle. The Department of Justice," he concluded, "is now actively preparing this case for trial." But Stanley Barnes will not be trying it. Last month he was appointed to new responsibilities as a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals...
...slow flashing of the blades of the corn...and everything hung dreaming in a shining silver haze..." In his treatment of the boy's father's Agee shows a sure power of characterization, even in these few pages, which is nearly equal to his descriptive skill. The only possible complaint is that more space was not devoted to these excerpts...
...complaint from the German Skating Federation, accusing Ronnie Robertson of demanding more than legal expense money for his European exhibitions this winter, threw his second-place victory into doubt. As vocal as any of "the skating mothers," Ronnie's father. Naval Architect Albert R. Robertson, blew his stack: "It's politics, stinking politics." Said Ronnie's coach, Gus Lussi: "The whole thing is fishy, and I think it started in this country, not abroad...
Canadian businessmen welcome U.S. investment in Canada, but they voice one frequent complaint: too often Canadian subsidiaries of U.S. firms are run as mere branch plants, financed, directed and staffed from the U.S. head office. In Montreal last week a top U.S. businessman noted this sore point, predicted that it would soon be remedied. Said Warren Lee Pierson, chairman of Trans World Airlines, Inc. and president of the International Chamber of Commerce: "I predict that American enterprises here will increasingly welcome investment, technical and managerial cooperation in Canada...
Asserting that "the city has never stinted on salaries," DeGuglielmo assailed Fortune's complaint that pay scales are too low by saying that "most of the planners use city jobs as stopgaps while they shop around for better positions." He added that "the whole thing looks like a power play to get higher salaries for his pets. I've no patience with that kind of tactics," the councillor avowed...