Word: corp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trip became ruffles and flourishes. He pushed on to New York for a two-day stay, had lunch at the U.N. with Secretary-General U Thant, journeyed up the Hudson to see New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, whose wide interests in Venezuela run from the Creole Petroleum Corp. to cattle ranching and supermarkets. At week's end Betancourt flew to Miami, paused for breakfast with A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, then boarded a Venezuelan jetliner bound for more state visiting in Mexico. Then he will go on to the Dominican Republic, where Juan Bosch, an old friend and fellow...
...population. Through peaceful and legal land reform, Betancourt's government has distributed 3,500,000 acres of land to more than 57,000 farm families and invested more than $100 million in agrarian redevelopment. Industrial development projects are luring in such foreign giants as Ford Motor Co., Container Corp. of America, Owens-Illinois, and Britain's Rootes Motors...
...borders with Red China and in last month's talks with Japan that produced $170 million in additional World War II reparations and loans. Despite his insistence that "I have no training in economics," he built a modest army PX-type operation into the giant Burma Economic Development Corp., running 34 firms ranging from banking to fisheries and turning handsome profits that in some years ran as high as $2,500,000. Though he insisted that he had been a socialist for 20 years and intended to remain one for 20 more, in fact, he was a tough-minded...
Bill Dodgers. The card that has had the hardest struggle is the Hilton Credit Corp.'s Carte Blanche, known in the trade as "Carte Rouge" for its steady deficits. Beginning operations in 1959 after its two competitors had already started. Carte Blanche imprudently handed out cards to poor credit risks, ended up with an inordinate number of bill dodgers. In a rescue operation two years ago, Conrad Hilton eased his son Barren out of the presidency, replaced him with veteran Hotelman Benno M. Bechhold, 60. Bechhold weeded out poor risks, cut the number of cardholders by 100,000 (current...
...grateful that it named a street after him. In recent years Fantus has expanded into surveying areas to see what sort of industry they can use. When Cambridge, Md., proved to have nearly everything needed to make chop suey, Fantus found it a new resident in Chun King Corp. The Fantus report on Evansville, Ind., so strongly criticized the town's attitude ("Evansville people resent anyone in power . . . politics is a dirty word") that it inspired civic reform and later enabled the city to attract new plants...