Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What followed was a spending spree -but one plotted with care. Tyonek Business Manager Seraphim Stephan Sr. took a course in tribal-business administration in New Mexico. An outside accounting firm was hired. Carefully investing their fortune, the Indians bought into the Anchorage construction firm that built their new homes, are acquiring an interest in an air-taxi service whose owner flew countless mercy missions for them before prosperity struck...
...time the main interlocutor was Economist Kosygin, who apologized for Soviet failure to deliver on 1964's Franco-Russian trade agreements. Said Kosygin: "You are too expensive." Still, he offered to speed up the retarded orders, and his underlings announced only a few hours later that the French firm Chausson had received a large contract for auto bodies. The delegations rapidly agreed to establish scientific and technical cooperation (exchange of scientists and patents) and to undertake joint unmanned space projects...
Like a Chameleon. It often seems that way. Durable Unilever has been a father figure in African enterprise since Lord Leverhulme, founder of the firm's British branch, in 1911 won a concession from Belgium's King Leopold II to develop a 1,875,000-acre plantation in the Congo. The company planted oil palms for its soap, later prospered by buying farm products from the Africans and selling household goods to them -pocketing a profit on both ends. Reaching out, U.A.C. also became the biggest merchandiser in the 14 former French colonies of Africa...
Vatican Foundations. Completing projects at a rate of $200 million yearly are more than a dozen sizable Italian companies and several smaller ones. This month two Rome firms, Comtec and Ircom, jointly signed to build a 20-story skyscraper in Uganda's capital of Kampala. A group of three other Ro man companies, including a firm called Vianini, in which the Vatican is the largest shareholder, recently won a $40 million order from the Libyan govern ment to broaden 1,483 miles of coastal highway and erect 46 bridges...
...Rome firm of Italconsult is participating in a $75 million bridge-and-viaduct job in Argentina. One of the Italians' specialties is designing long, lightweight bridges built with less concrete and steel than most spans...