Word: consented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Young Getty believes U.S. trustbusters will consent to the merger, since Skelly and Tidewater operations overlap in very few areas. More important, the U.S. oil business is so big that Tidewater and Skelly account for less than...
...authors ranging between about $900 and $6,000. While there is nothing illegal in paying for the pleasure of seeing one's words in print, the Federal Trade Commission objects to vanity publishers who mislead clients into thinking that they may land on the bestseller lists, has obtained consent orders against five firms in two years. Currently, FTC is launching a series of "consumer alerts" to put "naive" authors on guard...
...fascinating example of how the vanity firms work was provided by New York's Exposition Press, one of the leaders in the field, during FTC hearings two years ago. Up to a point, Exposition-which has since entered into a consent order promising to mend its ways-went through the routine of a regular publishing house. But the difference between what an editor reported to Publisher Edward Uhlan and what Uhlan wrote to the author-in persuading him that it was worth his money to have his book published-was both funny and pathetic. Items from the FTC hearings...
...Europe, she fell passionately in love with a toy-soldier-sized captain in the king's guards, one Count de Lauzun, who was half a dozen years and a foot or so her junior. She wooed him ardently. For three happy days, Louis XIV gave his grudging consent to the match, then withdrew it when a storm of popular protest blew up. The Sun King broke Mademoiselle's heart with the wondrously uncharacteristic words: "Kings must please the public...
...copy of the rule book, costs five shillings a year. Once the badge-silver lettering on a blue background-is recognized, members are at liberty to start talking. The rules say the conversation is to be 'discontinued' at the end of a journey 'unless by mutual consent'-a saving clause, if ever there...