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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knew food almost as well as the maitre d' and used his knowledge to good effect. If the restaurateur wanted to push calf's liver one day, he simply told his men, and they went among the tables and sold calf's liver. But now, "the biggest and most persistent problem in the industry is the dearth of good, experienced waiters," says Joe Baum, vice president of Manhattan's Restaurant Associates Industries, Inc. (Four Seasons, La Fonda...
...quick profit. Not surprisingly, stockbrokers often pick up those tips ahead of their customers. And they usually pass the information along to large institutions whose trading pays big commissions. Last week, for just such misuse of inside information, the Securities and Exchange Commission severely penalized the world's biggest brokerage house, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith...
Barring a miracle, it was. Eagle faced insurmountable troubles, some of which also worry Britain's 30-odd other independent airlines. The biggest problem is that they all compete directly with government-owned and government-favored British European Airways and British Overseas Airways Corp. While those two lines were awarded the profitable high-density routes, Eagle got hand-me-downs; it was authorized to fly to such secondary tourist centers as Rimini and Gerona. The government really plucked Eagle's feathers when it decided to ferry troops overseas aboard R.A.F. VC-10s instead of Eagle planes. Finally, when...
Armour & Co., the second biggest packer, was the first to recognize the need for change, and is spending $250 million on new facilities. Now Swift, the biggest of all, has joined the renaissance. It is closing 250 antiquated plants, and will spend $143 million on new, decentralized packing and slaughtering houses. They will replace cumbersome, multistory buildings in such places as Kansas City and Omaha. Says Vice President Paul Steinbrink: "We are moving closer to the sources of supply, where the animals...
...team's biggest player is left wing Tom Mellor from the Northwood School, who compares favorably to B.C. varsity star Tim Sheahy. Scott Godfrey, a high school All-Scholastic selection last year, and Tom Byrne fill out the Eagles' front line...