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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large, publicly held corporations. Heublein Inc., a big distiller and food processor, has bought United Vintners (which makes Italian Swiss Colony and Inglenook) and Beaulieu Vineyards. Seagrams controls Paul Masson and Browne Vintners. Brown-Forman Distillers, the Kentucky whisky maker, recently picked up the distributorship of F. Korbel and Bros., the big California champagne producer. National Distillers & Chemical has acquired Almadén. Two months ago the parent company made an offering of Almadén stock at $20 a share; it has since risen...
...booming (see following story), average monthly earnings of brokerage firms from January through August dropped 20% below a year earlier. Some of the best-known firms have suffered even more. In the most recent quarter, Weeden & Co.'s earnings fell 61%, and Hayden Stone barely broke even. Salomon Bros. net for fiscal 1972 (ended Sept. 30) was down 33%. In the past ten months, 33 brokerage firms have failed and another 18 are being watched closely by the New York Stock Exchange lest they fall below minimum capital requirements. So far this year 221 other brokerages have disappeared through...
Alice's reputation, plus the group's music-a tight hard-rock blend of unmerciful drumming, lush piano playing, deft guitar work and the leader's own Transylvanian vocal whine-have made $1,000,000 sellers of their last three Warner Bros. LPs-Love It to Death, Killer and School's Out (a free pair of bikini panties is included with that album...
...have developed a reflex of patting breast pockets to make sure their passports are still there. Strangers identify themselves to one another by mentioning the names of companies they were associated with. "National Trading," says one woman, referring to one of the country's largest wholesale merchants. "Desai Bros., General Dealers," says another...
Tonight Digger and his bros at Psi U are going to get wicked faced because the Big Green Indians are going to beat the Bejesus out of Princeton. The Princeton-Dartmouth game usually decided the Ivy League championship in the sixties, but now it just means a big night for the Green Mountain. The Tiger's defense will avert a massacre, Dartmouth...