shipstone


the act of a company taking over other companies, in order to grow larger. secrecy about the takeover is implied but is not obvious or compulsory.

( derived from the powerful shipstone corporation, which eventually owned coca-cola and 50% of all business on earth in robert heinlien’s novel “friday”
“gulf and western shipstoned paramount pctures back in the eighties, then they sold it.”

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