Word: corp
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Gardner Cryogenics Corp...
...weather vanes shifted largely as a result of Viet Nam. The war is already uppermost in the minds of an impressive number of voters. A poll conducted for the Republican National Committee by New Jersey's Opinion Research Corp. indicates that fully 33% of U.S. voters consider it the nation's No. 1 problem, while an additional 20% regard such closely related issues as the threat of world war or the menace of Communism as dominant. By comparison, only 19% of the voters consider the most important domestic issue, civil rights, to be the nation's chief...
...perfect weather twelve minutes before the disaster from Tokyo International and had climbed to 6,000 feet. The passengers were probably peering out the starboard windows for a glimpse of the mountain. Among them were 75 dealers and executives with their wives from Minneapolis' Thermo King Corp., on a 14-day company-paid tour of the Far East, a reward for outstanding sales. Suddenly witnesses on the ground saw the plane belch white, then black, smoke. To some it seemed to come apart in midair, pieces of wing and tail fluttering to earth like dry leaves. Presumed cause: either...
...Batmania delights no one so much as Licensing Corp. of America, which holds the licensing rights to the TV-comic-strip hero (as well as to 007). Since Batman went on TV in January, LCA has signed up 53 major companies for Batman products, and 45 other contracts are being negotiated. The licensees make every kind of item to which a Batman insignia can be stuck, sewn or stapled. Colgate-Palmolive is marketing Batbath bubble soap. Hallmark is bringing out Batman greeting cards. Toy companies, including Mattel, Ideal, Louis Marx and Remco, are turning out Batman toys. There are Batmasks...
...industry, where the big get bigger and the small tend to get squeezed out, the Studebaker Corp. in 1963 tried a brave departure. Bathed in $80 million of red ink after eight years of declining sales and expensive overhead at its antiquated South Bend plants, it moved assembly lines across the border to a more efficient subsidiary in Hamilton, Ontario. In its U.S. operation, the company needed to sell 115,000 cars a year to break even, was falling short of the mark. In Canada, with lower production costs, the make-money sales point was 20,000 cars a year...