Word: firmness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Woods served in the Navy aboard the USS Cleveland in 1917, and later worked for the investment firm of Paine, Webber, Jackson and Curtis in Boston...
...There, in 1946, he met and married his wife Ariadna, of Russian parentage, who had lived in Harbin, Manchuria. In 1952, he received a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley and settled in as an attorney at Cravath, Swaine and Moore, the prestigious Wall Street law firm. While there he became friendly with Royal Little, the New England businessman who was putting together Textron, one of the first conglomerates-those companies that sweep together the most wildly diverse businesses. Joining Textron at the invitation of Little, who warned him that he would be fired in a year...
...tire-recapping, steel fabricating and drinking water-bottling plants. Together with an Italian company, it is dredging parts of the Suez Canal. In 1976 Redec's revenues were more than $1 billion. Apart from his banking interests, Pharaon owns a substantial share of International Systems, a modular-housing firm in Mobile, Ala., and is the largest shareholder in Sam P. Wallace Co., a Dallas-based mechanical contracting firm...
...negotiating with Manhattan-based Ashmont Systems to build a plant on the grounds of the former Brooklyn Navy Yard. The facility would take in 2,400 tons of garbage a day and supply heat and electricity for nearby industrial users. Earlier the city began talks with another firm, Combustion Equipment Associates, Inc. (CEA), to construct in a different part of Brooklyn a similar plant that would use 3,000 tons of city garbage...
...Francois Mitterand, chief of the Socialist Party, wanted to keep the actual number of nationalized companies as low as possible. White collar workers and managers comprise about one-third of the Socialist's Constituency, and Mitterand has to tailor his policies to their support. The Socialists held firm to their limit of no more than 227 nationalizations, and the coalition collapsed...