Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Dynamics Corp., $1.4 billion, including F-102 and F106 fighters, B58 supersonic bombers, atomic submarines, the Atlas ICBM...
...Lockheed Aircraft Corp., $755.1 million, including F-104 fighters, C-130 Hercules transports, the submarine-launched Polaris IRBM...
...United Aircraft Corp., $661.1 million, including J57 and J-75 jet engines, helicopters...
...could say: "Gentlemen, if you have any doubt about my ability to underwrite the financing, just call the Cleveland Trust Co. and ask whether my check for $20 million will be honored." Five years later, with Trumbull and other small companies as a base, he founded Republic Steel Corp. as the nation's third biggest producer. That year he also won control of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Operating from his Cleveland-based Otis & Co., a securities firm, and a maze of holding companies, Eaton's deals were faster than the eye -or most financial experts-could follow...
...parlaying what he salvaged from the Depression into a second fortune even bigger than the first. With the financial help of RFC, Eaton diverted an Ontario river and drained a lake to get his huge Steep Rock iron-ore mine working, went back into steel by forming Portsmouth Steel Corp. with holdings in Detroit Steel and Cleveland-Cliffs Iron, helped that other great RFC beneficiary, Henry J. Kaiser, bankroll his ill-fated auto venture. Then, at a critical moment, Eaton backed out of a deal to underwrite $11.7 million worth of new Kaiser stock. (The court fight lasted four years...