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BEST-RUN COMPANIES in the U.S. were picked by panel of 171 company presidents for Dun's Review. First five in order: E. I. du Pont, General Electric, General Motors, International Business Machines, and the Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing...
RETAIL PRICES will hold firm in fourth quarter, say 84% of 375 retailing executives in Dun's Review survey. But 40% of them are optimistic about an increase in profits...
...company's money-is that the uninhibited use of high-priced food, liquor and gifts helps mightily in making a sale. Not so, says Clarence B. Randall, retired board chairman of Inland Steel, in a caustic attack on "The Myth of the Magic Expense Account" in the current Dun's Review. After 30 years in the executive suites of the nation's eighth largest steelmaker, Randall, 69, believes that "this orgiastic abuse of the expense account is a spectacular and alarming trend, participated in by enough companies and individuals to put all of us upon caution...
PROFIT PROSPECTS are better for second quarter this year than they were in same period a year ago, according to a survey of 1,500 businessmen by Dun & Bradstreet. Fifty-three percent of those queried said earnings will be higher; 70% expect sales to increase over last year...
...stories were factually accurate. Frank Prince did have a prison record. That record was known to many if not all of his friends and business associates. It was known to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which had nonetheless cleared Prince for defense contracts. It had even been mentioned in Dun & Bradstreet. Indeed, among those closest to Prince, two of the few who did not know of his record were his wife and 24-year...