Word: label
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company toward "convenience" living and disposable paper products. With a five-year growth map of what the market wanted, Chandler set about buying complementary companies, took in Sterling Products for its paper plates in 1956, Modern Packages for its flexible packaging material. In 1957 he added four box and label makers, last summer merged the Johnston Foil Mfg. Co., which laminated foil to paper. This year Chandler got his biggest acquisition: Eastern Corp. (1957 sales: $25 million), which will give Standard its own source of pulp. With current acquisitions, more than half of Standard's production goes...
...crib that is actually 55 ft. long, doing cartwheels on a top hat that is 16 ft. high. There are some fairly funny sight gags, too. When Tom slides down a rope into the royal treasury, the first thing he sees is a potato sack with a gleaming label on it: GOLD. Jaw dropping, he turns to the next sack. The label reads: MORE GOLD. Best of all, there are two of the most ludicrously sinister villains (Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers) who ever took sneering lessons...
With the aid of the local police laboratory, his bureau examined hundreds of violins brought to it by worried buyers. Most of the instruments had telltale modern coats of lacquer or labels with inks and paper of recent manufacture. In one violin, the police lab even found particles of nylon. A concertmaster brought Iviglia a "Stradivarius" (for which he had paid $13,000) with a label reading "Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis faciebat Anno 1703." Underneath, another label was found reading "Pietro Antonio della Costa, Treviso, Anno 1764." Both labels were false. A Swiss collector brought in a 1716 "Stradivarius" for which...
What Captain Cutter probably objects to most of all is the recent spurt of "alumni recruiting" in the Ivy League, a facet of alumni activity which, by virtue of its unfortunate label, suggests an attempt to hustle unsuspecting lummocks into football uniforms before they or their parents realize what has happened...
Most ardent believer is a brash, well-formed 15-year-old Berlin schoolgirl named Cornelia Froboess-known only as Conny-who has sold 1,450,000 records on the Electrola label this year, earned royalties of $60,000 (of which her father-manager doles out pocket money at the rate of 26? a month). Sighing with all the delicate modulation of a stricken heifer, she belts out Tin Pan Alley tunes and ersatz German approximations with equal gusto. Conny just finished her first movie, commands a following of 56 adoring fan clubs with about 10,000 members. She travels about...