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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Railroads. Rail traffic in the first half, said James L. Symes, chairman of the Pennsylvania Railroad, will be 5% to 7% over the first half of 1959, when the rails were still steaming out of the recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Look Ahead | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Retail Food. Food will continue to be "at least as great a bargain" through the first half of 1960, as it was during this year, said Franklin J. Lunding, chairman of the Jewel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Look Ahead | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...public, the U.S. drug industry would like to appear as a dedicated, white-coated scientist skillfully brewing one wonder drug after another. But Tennessee's Estes Kefauver, chairman of the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, long has had ambitions to paint a different picture -of an industry that fixes prices too high. Last week, opening an investigation of drugmakers, the Keef got in his broad strokes as soon as nervous industry witnesses settled uncomfortably in their hot seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRUGS: The Double Image | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

professional soldiers who have won star-studded reputations in the postwar business world, the out standing example is General Lucius DuBignon Clay, the compact (5 ft. 9 in., 170 tbs.), hard-driving chairman and chief executive of Continental Can Co. West Pointer ('18) Clay, 62, carried out one of the biggest logistical jobs in history as director of materiel in the Army Service Forces in World War II. After war's end, as commander in chief of U.S. forces in Europe and Military Governor of the U.S. Zone, he directed the reordering and rebuilding of a major segment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: General of Industry | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...employ 4,300 workers, with an informal touch. In their rambling Wakefield, Mass, headquarters, which was once an underwear mill, the Bakalars share a secretary, avoid written memos, and do most of their business in corridor conferences with staff members. Decisions by Leo, 46, who serves as treasurer and chairman, and David, 34, who is president, have equal power. To justify the price of Transitron's stock (now selling at a steep 45 times projected 1960 earnings) the company is expected to diversify, use the 2.1 million shares of Transitron's authorized but unissued stock to buy other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Transistor Tycoons | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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