Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ENGINE CHARLIE" WILSON, ex-president of General Motors, will take deep plunge into shipping business because he believes another sea boom is coming. For several million dollars, Oswego Shipping Corp. (75% owned by Wilson and two friends) bought out Marine Transport Lines, which owns or operates 60 ships, controls one of world's biggest fleets of specialized vessels...
...union. Employer associations can not only pool resources, but also save employers' time and money by bargaining for them. The mammoth steel industry practices a highly useful form of industrywide bargaining, though it boggles at any formal association of companies. After a bad strike in 1946, U.S. Steel Corp. sat down in 1947 with the union and hammered out a contract setting a pattern that the rest of the industry has since followed. In effect, U.S. Steel, biggest and toughest in the industry, negotiates on an industry-wide basis for most of the 22 integrated steel companies; before granting...
Behind the fight was a longstanding feud between Perlstein and the Pabst family. Perlstein was president of Premier Malt when it took over the old Pabst Corp. in 1932 in anticipation of Prohibition's demise. He became president of the new Premier-Pabst Corp., and Fred Pabst, son of the founder, later became chairman. Perlstein led the company through its period of greatest growth and profitmaking, saw it reach its biggest year in 1949 with a sales peak of $168,994,000. But Perlstein soon found himself hurt by his own success. Hit hard by the steadily flattening beer...
...Beirut last week flew a cosmopolitan group of businessmen with a daring mission. They were the directors of a new investment company called MIDEC -Middle East Industrial Development Projects Corp.-which represents capital from the U.S. and nine European countries. With field headquarters in Beirut, MIDEC's directors were looking for partners, and the partners they want are Arab businessmen who will set up and run their own enterprises, retaining majority ownership and control but getting help from MIDEC's capital and technical know-how. To old Middle East hands, the idea of Westerners joining in an Arab...
...meeting of European businessmen last April to explore the idea of investing on a minority basis in Arab business. When Rykens got a favorable reception, he took off on a quick tour to line up more than 80 European and U.S. firms, including such giants as the First Boston Corp., Kaiser Industries and the Rockefellers' International Basic Economy Corp. Rykens carefully avoided both governmental assistance and the oil industry, which might have aroused Arab resentment, then tried his idea on the Middle East last fall. When he received a solid show of interest from businessmen and found no opposition...