Word: cyanamid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Japanese assigned to Beirut have left the country. The list of American firms that have ordered their personnel or their dependents to leave Lebanon reads like a roll call of U.S. business overseas: General Electric, General Motors, Boeing, Lockheed, FMC Corp., International Harvester, American Cyanamid, Raytheon, First National City Bank, Chase Manhattan, Morgan Guaranty, Irving Trust. "When the banks move out," observed one evacuated businessman last week, "that means the end of Beirut...
...litigation that has now finally reached a climax began 20 years ago when the Federal Government noticed that wholesale prices for tetracycline-based antibiotics were not only surprisingly high but identical at various drug companies. Eventually, the Justice Department charged Pfizer, American Cyanamid and Bristol with fraudulently monopolizing patents and conspiring to fix prices. Upjohn and Squibb were named as coconspirators. A jury's criminal conviction was overturned, and the case was ultimately dismissed. But droves of antibiotic users, including the U.S. Army, the governments of Iran and South Viet Nam and the various state governments, brought civil suits...
Just since Jan. 1, companies have announced stock repurchases adding up to nearly $1.4 billion-a total already more than double the figure for all 1972. The ranks of the corporate buyers include AMF, American Broadcasting, American Cyanamid, Continental Can, Gulf & Western, INA, Olin Corp., Raytheon and United Aircraft. Gulf Oil, through a tender offer, is acquiring 13 million of its own shares worth around $338 million, making Gulf Chairman Bob Dorsey probably the biggest stock repurchaser ever...
...mutual funds is not Price's biggest business. The firm manages almost twice as much money -about $3 billion-in private portfolios. Until recently these belonged to individuals rich enough to make a $1,000,000 minimum investment, or to the pension funds of such corporations as American Cyanamid, Bristol-Myers, Duke Power and Ford Motor...
...that the company wanted to be closer to its Connecticut laboratories and factory. Chesebrough-Pond's is only one of several large firms to move all or part of their central offices out of New York in the past five years. Among the others: American Can, American Cyanamid, Borden, Uniroyal, PepsiCo, Corn Products, Shell Oil, Continental Oil, M.W. Kellogg, Lone Star Cement, Olin Corp., Stauffer Chemical...