Word: corp
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AMERICANS believe in numbers. As a democracy, the U.S. chooses its leaders statistically, so to speak, by the simple process of counting votes. Numbers measure the economy, record social progress, identify people on credit card rolls and bank accounts. "In a numerically conscious society," says Rand Corp. Researcher Amrom H. Katz, "progress is measured by numbers, not by quality...
...when Harold Sydney Geneen, 57, goes fishing off Cape Cod aboard his $100,000 yacht, Genie IV, does he temporarily travel without his attache cases. "Otherwise, my office is where I am," explains Geneen. Inasmuch as he is board chairman and president of the globe-girdling International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., that could be almost anywhere. A man who walks fast, talks fast and thinks fast, the sturdy (5 ft. 10 in., 180 lbs.) Geneen churns with the ambition of a man half his age. In the space of eight years, he has rejuggled ITT from top to bottom, transforming...
...horizontal" mergers (between competitors) and, to a lesser extent, "vertical" ones (with suppliers or customers). As a result, today's merger-minded companies are looking for partners in industries far afield from their own, as in American Tobacco's current negotiations to acquire apparel-making Kayser-Roth Corp...
...Princeton graduate, bosses the sporting goods com pany, oversees a line that includes sweat ers, socks and tennis-racket covers. Son Francois, 34, a Stanford University-trained physicist, is a research and development director at Lacoste's other major company. In 1934, Lacoste teamed with the Bendix Corp. to form Air Equipement, a French company, to make airplane starters. The com pany has since been merged into D.B.A...
...Depression's bank holiday, a Chicago banker and businessman who in March 1933 took charge of screening 17,000 banks shut down by presidential order, within a week reopened 12,000 of them, eventually either closed or merged 5,000 others, meanwhile organizing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to rebuild public confidence in the nation's banking system; of arteriosclerosis; in Chicago...