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...casual with his statistics. In fact, the farmer gets 400 of the food dollar (see chart, page 22). He does even better on relatively unprocessed foods like meat, raw vegetables and fruit. Ranchers pocket about two-thirds of the retail price for beef, which accounted for the biggest chunk of the February price surge...
...B.O.C., with assets of $1.3 billion, showed operating losses of $6.6 million in 1970 and $4,000,000 last year. To keep the bank from failing, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation moved in. Rather than close down the bank and pay off its depositors-which would take a big chunk ($750 million) out of FCIC's $4.7 billion in assets-the agency will make available $60 million over the next five years to keep the bank running while the Chase management restructures its investments...
...very good with people, uneasy with other men and unable to make lasting friendships, awkward and uncomfortable with women despite the beauties he squired in public, sometimes generous but often thoughtless of those who worked for him. Dietrich was paid $500,000 a year, but taxes took a huge chunk of that. Dietrich persistently badgered Hughes for part ownership. Hughes stalled for years. Finally, in 1957, Dietrich decided...
Wife's Jewelry. King was well prepared. In mid-1968 he formed the first in a series of trusts for his four children, ages six to 14, with Mercantile Bank & Trust Co. in the Bahamas as trustee. He transferred a major chunk of his Colorado Corp. stock to the trusts, along with his four homes, some real estate on the island of Bali, his gun collection and his wife's jewelry. Investigators have been unable to determine the actual size of the trusts. Creditors are looking for ways to tap them, but the trusts may be untouchable because...
...guerrilla war the moderate leadership of the Awami League would probably give way to more radical political forces, perhaps leading to a Peking-oriented government on India's border. A third factor, of course, is India's unspoken desire to weaken its neighbor by detaching a sizable chunk of its territory...