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Teacher and Publisher. Almost half of the earnings came from casualty, life and property insurance, mostly sold by companies that Amexco had recently acquired. Amexco has become a force in the mutual-fund business. Last year it took over the Commonwealth Group of four funds, and this spring it started two more, including an "offshore" fund for foreigners. The acquisition of W. H. Morton & Co. and Equitable Securities has given Amexco a strong position in stock and bond underwriting. The company is a major factor in international currency transactions. Every working day the American Express International Banking Corp. buys...
...American Express offices abroad. But it has won customers for such other ventures as the teaching of foreign languages and the publication of Travel & Camera magazine, which Amexco established by purchasing and redesigning U.S. Camera and Travel magazine. In June, the company began a computerized service that can provide almost instantaneous reservations at some 250,000 hotel and motel rooms between Boston and Honolulu...
...Lausanne, representatives of the 22 scheduled lines that fly the Atlantic were unable to agree on new, uniform rates. The result last week was that the Atlantic lines began operating under an anarchy called the "open rate." That means that until they agree on rates they can charge almost any fare that they want...
...meeting with the publicity-shy strategist of Perrier's expansion, President Gustave Leven. Perrier makes a generous proposal for Genvrain: $56 a share for stock that was selling for $45 on the Bourse. Genvrain would be mate No. 2 for Perrier. It has already wooed and almost won Sapiem, France's second largest dairy firm...
...rhythm method as an effective means of contraception. I've had professional men in their 30's and 40's come in here saying that they've used the rhythm method for ten years and suddenly their wives have become pregnant. They don't know that it's almost assured that sooner or later, usually sooner, the rhythm method will fail...