Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aggressive Patrolling. The U.S. also will expand naval surveillance over Communist junks, which have become a major means of sneaking men and materiel into South Viet Nam. U.S. intelligence experts estimate that the Reds are presently using some 72,000 junks for this purpose. The U.S. will not only supply Saigon with swift new patrol boats, but will also order its own warships to track "suspicious" vessels...
Management Consultants Booz, Allen & Hamilton prescribed a stiff tonic: cut down on relatives in the management, diversify, set up separate divisions, expand overseas, sell stock to the public. Miles took the advice, lured outside talent into its executive ranks, acquired an enzyme and a dermatological firm, built four new foreign plants in four years, brought out several new products, including Chocks, a flavored, chewable vitamin for children. Booz, Allen predicted that Miles could thus double its sales and profits in ten years; Miles has actually done the trick far faster. Its sales have climbed from $51.5 million...
...salesmen leave their jobs just because the boss does not take their advice on company policy, but Bernard Cornfeld is no ordinary salesman. Nine years ago, he told his bosses at Manhattan's Investors Planning Corp., a mutual-fund sales firm, that they ought to expand overseas. The bosses said no; Cornfeld quit. He went overseas himself, set up a company that began by selling mutual-fund shares to G.I.s, has since become the largest mutual-fund sales organization outside the U.S. Last week Cornfeld closed a nostalgic deal to get back into the U.S. mutual-fund field...
...attracted by stock options so lavish that 300 of his key people own 82% of Investors Overseas; Cornfeld's 18% interest has a book value of $2,973,600. By introducing similar stock options to Investors Planning, Cornfeld expects to give the U.S. fund enough fresh thrust to expand it from a regional mid-Atlantic fund into a nationwide operation. Investors Planning will keep its name and its management, which is headed by Cornfeld's old boss, Walter Benedick, 67. Benedick is remarkably happy about the whole deal. "We weren't interested in just anyone taking over...
Funds will also finance an additional 11 to 15 faculty members to expand research and graduate study. Special emphasis will be placed on strengthening urban legal studies, criminal law and criminology, and foreign legal systems...