Word: 337th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Size is not everything; FORTUNE also measures profitability. On the basis of earnings as a percentage of invested capital, 180th largest industrial firm Avon Products was the best performer with 37.3%. On the basis of earnings as a percentage of total sales, Amerada Petroleum, the 337th company on the list, ranked highest with 26.7%. By either measure, Polaroid and such drug firms as G. D. Searle, Smith Kline & French Laboratories and Merck were outstanding performers...
...scientists who feared that the substantial nuclear lead the U.S. enjoyed over Russia in October 1958 might now be greatly reduced unless testing was resumed. Back to Geneva went Arthur H. Dean with a new set of compromise proposals. He presented them one day last week at the 337th weary session in Room VIII of the Palais. Scratchy showed no signs of interest, for he was just back from an informative weekend in Moscow. He knew that even as Dean spoke preparations had begun for the Russian nuclear explosion that would not only rip a large hole out of Central...