Word: firm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...replied that he had not talked with representatives of the firm, Vappi Construction, Inc., but he said that he had called Gopen and had given him the list. He said that Gopen was to call his office sometime later during the day to report what progress had been made...
...sample about 1000 were technical students, 1000 non-technical, and 1000 graduate business students. About 70 per cent of the non-technical sample plan to go on to graduate school somewhere, and 34 per cent ultimately to have a career with an industrial or business firm. Only 25 per cent said they wanted to go into education, while 20 per cent plan to be self employed and 5 per cent want to go into government...
...Germans interested in business machines; of the fairgoers who visited the Nixdorf booth, 780 were classified as "serious customers," and the company now anticipates at least 200 new sales as a result. Founder-Owner Heinz Nixdorf, 43, has also completed his first corporate takeover: he recently acquired the Cologne firm of Wanderer-Werke, a leading manufacturer of office equipment that had been selling Nixdorf computers under a Wanderer label...
...bookkeeping and inventories. A physics major at the University of Frankfurt 16 years ago, he first peddled his idea by traveling from company to company on a motorbike and offering to build a small computer for only $8,000. He eventually found a customer in a Ruhr Valley utility firm. When Nixdorf and one assistant built an economical working computer for the company, so many orders quickly followed that Nixdorf quit school and opened his own shop. Since that time, he has sold 5,000 small computers. Even without new orders from the Hannover fair, he anticipates selling another...
...Down. Few ever did. A man of both vision and vigor who honed his boyhood interest in aviation as a Navy pilot during World War I, New Jersey-born Trippe ruled his airline with a firm hand. After establishing Pan Am as the first carrier to offer regular international service, he engaged in what amounted to a one-man diplomatic mission in order to negotiate landing rights in South America. In the 1930s, with his line's South American routes already well established, he became the first to introduce scheduled airline service across both the Pacific and the Atlantic...