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...CASE YOU'RE IN LOVE (Atco) finds Sonny and Cher, that wildly caparisoned, dank-haired first family of folk-rock, crooning simple love ballads to each other. "You look to me like misty roses/ Too soft to touch but too lovely to leave alone," sighs Sonny, closing his eyes to her op-art bellbottoms. "You and me is what I see and that's the way it's gonna stay," chimes Cher. Meanwhile, "The drums keep pounding rhythm to the brain...
...BABE (Atco). Riding the folk-pop wave are Sonny and Chér, a husband and wife with Siamese-twin voices that make it hard to tell who's the boy and who's the girl, and even whether one or both are singing. They muse at the quaint notions of elders, who think that people who spend their allowances before they get them won't be able to make a go of marriage...
...wanted to turn Cord, the bad holding company, into a good operating company. One of his first moves was to drop the Cord name, substitute Aviation and Transportation Corp. for the top holding company. Then, like a horse trader, he sold, bartered and junked the money-losing companies in ATCO and AVCO and a holding company of lower degree, Aviation Manufacturing Corp. (AMCO...
...touch & go to keep ATCO breathing. One example: AMCO ran short of cash to keep its subsidiaries operating, so it borrowed $1,400,000 from AVCO. AVCO, in turn, ran short, so it borrowed $500,000 from ATCO. ATCO then sold its interest in Checker Cab Manufacturing Corp., and later some new stock and was then able to help out AVCO, which was then better able to help AMCO...
...this Peter-to-Paul manner, Emanuel kept the complicated corporation breathing until he had strengthened AVCO enough so that it could swallow both its parent, ATCO, and AMCO. By then V.E. thought that AVCO could start expanding again. With war in the offing, he had his eye on Consolidated Aircraft Corp. The way he got it was characteristic. Washington didn't like the idea of a key war plant being run from a skyscraper 3,000 miles away. So V.E. simply had one of his small planemaking subsidiaries, Vultee Aircraft Inc., buy Consolidated. (One planemaker described Vultee...