Word: corp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wedding Cake. Last week he found a taker: the Uris Building Corp., headed by Brothers Percy and Harold Uris. New York's biggest builders, the Urises have studded the city with wedding-cake office buildings, shaped to fit tightly inside the New York building code "envelope" and provide a maximum of space and a minimum of aesthetics. Zeckendorf's sale price for the lease: $4,500,000. Uris brothers thought they had a good deal, since so much had already been spent in foundation work on the site. Whether Zeckendorf made or lost money and how much...
...tough, steely-eyed international promoter who signed a 50-year contract with Premier Patrice Lumumba to act as adviser for the development of the new nation's mineral, oil, gas and hydroelectric-power resources. Through the company he organized only a month ago, called Congo International Management Corp. (CIMCO), Detwiler hopes-if the Congo Parliament ratifies the deal-to mastermind projects to build airports, pipelines, highways and hospitals in the Congo and to train the Congolese to run them. Crowed Detwiler: "We have rescued the Congo...
...promote its slogan "Where there's life . . . there's Bud," the Anheuser-Busch brewery has spent $40 million. Last week it filed suit against the Chemical Corp. of America, which makes a floor wax that kills bugs too. Its complaint: the chemical company's new slogan-"Where there's life, there's bugs"-tended to "disparage" Budweiser. Chemical Corp. blandly rejoined that its inspiration was really 18th century English Poet John Gay, who wrote: "While there is life there's hope, he cried." The court, in a temporary injunction, told Chemical Corp. to apply...
...system's manager will be an old hand in building military hardware. International Business Machines Corp. But the company that will teach IBM's computers how to solve the Air Force's vast logistic and strategic problems is tiny (1959 sales: $3,400,000), little known Technical Operations Inc., whose product is what might be called "the big think." Tech Ops is one of a growing number of new companies that provide theoretical solutions to the enormously complex problems now confronting business and Government...
...Segundo plant from 1936 to 1958, Heinemann won fame as the exponent of clean, uncluttered aircraft, designed such famous Navy aircraft as the Skyraider attack bombers and the Dauntless dive bombers. ¶E. Clinton Towl, 54, succeeded the late Leon A. Swirbul as president of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. Towl was one of the founders of the company in 1929, along with Board Chairman Leroy Grumman and Swirbul. His specialty is administration and finance...