Word: corp
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...invasion was dramatized last week by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp., which has more than 400 branches in 40 countries. It announced that it is negotiating to buy a "significant equity position" in the parent company that owns Marine Midland, the 14th largest U.S. bank, with assets of $12 billion and more than 300 branches in New York State. Other foreign banks have followed the buy-in route too: European American Bank, which is owned by six European banks, bought out the bankrupt Franklin National in 1974 and now has 97 branches in New York City and Long Island...
Executives of the large coal companies deny that they mishandled the negotiations, or were trying to damage the union. Said Harry Washburn, senior vice president of Cleveland-based North American Coal Corp.: "The operators do not want to tear the union apart. They want a strong union, one that can deliver a work force every morning." Many executives of the big companies are upset about the latest contract proposal and blame Jimmy Carter for it. Said a steel company official: "There's no doubt we were the losers, dragged into defeat by Government intervention...
...that had reacted to the dilemma in widely contrasting ways. In New York, Citicorp, holding company for the U.S.'s second largest bank. Citibank, let out the word that it had stopped all lending to the South African government and government-owned companies. In New Haven. Conn., Olin Corp., the owner of the Winchester Group, which is one of the largest U.S. firearms makers, was indicted on a charge of conspiring to ship weapons to South Africa illegally...
Price rights are hardly a novelty between the military and the companies that make the weapons. But a dispute pitting the Navy against the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp. reached an unusually high pitch last week. After months of haggling, the company told the Navy that it will halt work in April on a $1.4 billion contract to build 18 nuclear attack submarines unless Washington ponies up an additional $544 million to pay the company for cost overruns. A shutdown would throw 14,000 employees out of work at the company's shipyards in Groton, Conn...
...piled high with sales reports, production analyses, sheaves of magazines and a couple of dime-store signs that proclaim BLESS THIS MESS and PLEASE DON'T STRAIGHTEN THE MESS ON MY DESK! YOU'LL GOOF UP MY SYSTEM. Thomas Aquinas Murphy, 62, chairman of General Motors Corp., is a casual fellow with gray Brillo hair, thick bookkeeper's spectacles, a heap of optimism and no pretenses. From his 14th-floor corner office behind security-locked glass doors in the Gen eral Motors Building, he looks out at Detroit's soaring Renaissance Center, which is the city...