Word: corp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memories," the Hearsts moved into an apartment on San Francisco's Nob Hill; it was Feb. 20-Patty's 21st birthday. On Sept. 1, Randolph Hearst stepped down as editor and publisher of the Examiner; he remains the paper's president and chairman of the Hearst Corp., which controls eight newspapers as well as Cosmopolitan, Popular Mechanics, Good Housekeeping and many other publishing properties...
...world price is not likely; on the contrary, OPEC will probably raise prices another 12% this week at a meeting in Vienna. But Britain is taking steps to secure all the supplies it can, fast. Earlier this year, the government said it would set up the British National Oil Corp. to compete with private companies in exploration, production and refining. Presumably, it will move into marginal fields now avoided as uneconomic by private companies. Currently, anything smaller than 100,000-bbl.-per-day production capacity is regarded by most companies as not worth their commercial effort...
Some examples of thoroughly commercial promotions: Rich Products Corp., maker of Coffee Rich, offers a "Bicentennial Kit" ("It includes an actual copy of the Declaration of Independence ...") in an ad headlined "Coffee Rich started a revolution in good taste." d-CON insecticide offers six free flag decals or, for $2, a Bicentennial T shirt. Its ad concludes: "So get a little American history free from d-CON, the people who are helping to free America from bugs." Nabisco offers grocers a cardboard kit that unfolds into a display stand-for Nabisco items-stamped "1776 Bicentennial 1976." The kit is called...
...Salute to Congress" night, more than 100 Senators and Representatives, many accompanied by their wives, joined Air Force generals, who clustered around do-it-yourself exhibits. If a visitor filled out an AVCO Corp. card and diligently watched a slide program on strategic systems, he got a chance to win a set of matching luggage. Teledyne held a raffle to attract passers-by who might somehow have missed a leggy model dressed in short shorts of Air Force blue and a clinging blouse topped by five stars on each exquisite shoulder...
Many individual firms round the country are also feeling the first flush of recovery. In Waltham, Mass., Hewlett-Packard's medical electronics plant reports that orders are up 20% over a year ago, while in Norwood, Mass., Northrop Corp. is expanding its precision products plant to accommodate demand. Officials at Whirlpool Corp. in Michigan report that sales of appliances have been climbing since June...