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Another People move, the February takeover for an undisclosed sum of Britt Airways, a Midwest commuter line with hubs in Chicago and St. Louis, has made more sense. Britt provides People with important feeder traffic into its Newark base...
...enemy, it might be able to develop techniques for avoiding detection. Simply knowing what details the U.S. had about how to locate Soviet submarines, which is apparently part of what the Walkers provided for a decade, would have offered Moscow an invaluable advantage in the sensitive strategic struggle. Says Britt Snider, director of security policy at the Pentagon: "They sold information that is worth to us millions, if not billions, of dollars...
...Dustbuster has transformed Black & Decker from a power-tool company catering to do-it-yourselfers in their workshops to a maker of products for the entire home. Says Vice President Stephen Britt: "Dustbuster got us out of the basement and upstairs." Last year the company moved deeper into the housewares market by paying $300 million for General Electric's small- appliance division. As sales swelled from $1.17 billion in 1983 to $1.53 billion in 1984, profits went from $44.2 million to $95.4 million...
...Harry Britt says he has not found anyone who does not feel good about being an American right now. Well, he has not talked to me. I am ashamed of this country and what Ronald Reagan has done to the millions of poor people. I am ashamed of the violence shown toward children, women and animals. I am ashamed of the selfishness that characterizes our business and personal values. I am ashamed that not everyone in this country has equal rights although we have equal problems. Most of all, I am ashamed that the majority of Americans are so easily...
...against General Motors last weekend were reluctant and selective (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). "People seem to be enjoying themselves more," says Mel Hagen, 35, an auto worker from Keego Harbor, Mich., a working-class town outside Detroit. "Things aren't as tight as they once were." Homosexual Activist Harry Britt, a member of the San Francisco board of supervisors, also senses a change. Says he: "I haven't found anybody who doesn't feel good about being an American right now." The new mood has become a central element in the presidential campaign. Ronald Reagan has tried...