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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maker of metal products, from 3,300-lb. brass ingots to casings for Cha nel No. 5 perfume, Scovill drifted downhill for years. The firm lost $131,-000 on sales of $121 million...
This side of Technicolor, no one wages war on the range quite like Harold L. Oppenheimer, 47, head of the U.S.'s biggest cattle management firm. By his definition, "ranching is the nearest thing in business to a military operation. You deal with large amounts of terrain, large-scale logistics. On the battlefield as in a roundup, success depends on timing, men, and movement...
...range, the general won his stars long ago. As founder and chairman of his Kansas City firm, Oppenheimer Industries Inc., he maneuvers some 220,000 head of cattle on more than 100 ranches in 17 states. In addition, he is one of the nation's leading authorities on the arcane art of investing in cattle. He has written two books on ranching (Cowboy Arithmetic, Cowboy Economics) and co-authored a third (the recently published Cowboy Litigation, a 561-page tome on the tax and legal aspects of ranching...
Music Man Stein's call must have sounded like tunes of glory. "We consider our entire firm to be a general staff," says President Ronald Jarvis Jr.. a reserve Marine colonel who helped Oppenheimer build the company. "The ranches and the herds are the regiments and divisions." The top echelon of the 99-man staff is largely recruited from the military, because Oppenheimer believes that soldiers "know how to act in a crisis." They Certainly ought to know the routine. Oppenheimer requires bimonthly inspections o_? ranchers, using Marine fitness reports...
...Manhat tan-based Talent Associates Ltd. as a wholly owned subsidiary. Although Si mon remains his conglomerate's biggest stockholder, he has left its active man agement largely to Chairman William E. McKenna, who engineered the Tal ent Associates acquisition as a way of expanding his firm's activities in the communications field. Through McCall Corp., Norton Simon Inc. already pub lishes McC all's magazine (circ. 8,500,000). McKenna looks to the new prop erty for "important growth" in the field of communications...