Word: corp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...houses containing built-in shelters. A Virginia realtor put ads in Washington newspapers plugging "life and peace of mind outside the Washington target area" at Bull Run. In Chicago, Leo Hoegh, Eisenhower's civil defense director and now executive vice president of Chicago's Wonder Building Corp., reported a surge in sales. Wonder, which manufactures fabricated shelters, normally sells about 400 a month, last week took orders for 137 in two days...
Harry F. Vickers (president, Sperry Rand Corp.), W8HBY...
...Britain, Ford's fast-rising subsidiary, Ford Motor Co. Ltd., has become the No. 2 car seller, after British Motor Corp. (which makes Morris, Austin, M.G.). G.M.'s Vauxhall Motors Ltd. is No. 3. From their British bases, both sell widely within the Commonwealth. ¶ In West Germany, G.M.'s Opel and Ford's Taunus are outpaced only by Volkswagen, which, however, is far out front. The two subsidiaries now have the entire six-nation European Common Market open to them...
...established foreign automakers, or licensing foreign companies to assemble U.S. cars. Chrysler has begun assembling its Valiant compact in Australia, plans to do so in Argentina; it has also bought 25% of France's Simca auto works and assembles and sells Simcas in Europe and Australia. American Motors Corp. has licensed 21 foreign producers to turn out its compact Ramblers. Studebaker-Packard cars are being assembled in South America, South Africa, Belgium, Israel and Australia-in its own plants and those of licensees...
...Whether the stock market goes up or down, one man who can hardly lose-provided the volume of trading stays high-is Norman Hirschfield, 51, new chairman of Teleregister Corp., which makes and operates stock market quotation boards. Last week Hirschfield had bullish news for his stockholders: first-half 1961 earnings reached nearly $500,000, v. a $20,000 deficit in first-half 1960. A Wall Street office boy at 14, Hirschfield became vice president of a brokerage house at 20, got friendly with Big Investor Charles Allen (who holds a dominant interest in Teleregister), was made chairman of Allen...