Word: colossuses
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...planes (and options for an additional 25) is the biggest order the decade-old consortium has landed. Equally significant, the sale marks the end of Lufthansa's overwhehning dependence on Boeing. Said Lufthansa Chairman Herbert Culmann: "We have no interest in turning a giant into a colossus...
...joined then Defense Minister Schmidt as his state secretary, with a salary of 1 DM (54?) a year, and two years later followed Schmidt to the Department of Economics and Finance. Mommsen was appointed in 1973 chairman of the board of Krupp, West Germany's faltering industrial colossus, and oversaw its two most profitable postwar years before retiring...
...lower trade barriers on imports of Mexican textiles and produce, and a reversal of present moves toward stringent immigration controls. Above all, the U.S. must be willing to deal with its neighbor as an equal. Only then will the fiercely proud Mexicans soften their suspicion of the northern colossus and join in a partnership that will benefit both sides...
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, about buying the colossus for resale to as yet unspecified German clients. The W.T.C. cost $1 billion by the time it was completed in 1972, and probably would sell for about that much. Though rentals came slowly at first because of an oversupply of office space in the city, they picked up with the recovery following the 1973-75 recession, and the building is now 90% occupied. The Trade Center still remains a drain on the Port Authority, since much of its space was rented at bargain rates and as a result...
...North American Aviation Inc. in the early 1930s. After Breech had vitalized the Bendix Aviation Corp, in a single year, a desperate Henry Ford n persuaded him to quarterback Ford's new management team. Breech arrived in 1946 to find what he called an "awkward and stumbling colossus" with an estimated $100 million annual losses. When he stepped down as board chairman in 1960, the company was earning $500 million a year, with $4 billion in new plant and equipment. Easily lured back from retirement, Breech the next year became chairman of Trans World Airlines...