Word: binalbagan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manila's morning Chronicle (circ. 44,750), and by adding to it a string of 25 TV and radio stations soon emerged as a communications king. In 1951, with a generous loan from the state-owned Philippine National Bank, he bought Asia's largest sugar refinery, the Binalbagan-Isabela Sugar Co., Inc. Last year, after expanding the Lopez holdings to include more sugar mills, a cement company and a jute-bag plant, the brothers pulled off their biggest coup. Worried by a campaign against foreign ownership of Philippine utilities that was sparked by the Lopez-owned Chronicle...
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