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...Roosevelt in 1932. That led to a key role for Weinberg in the World War II industrial-mobilization effort, where he got to know top executives at every major manufacturing firm in the land. After the war, these executives began to reward puny Goldman with business, most notably the giant 1956 initial public offering of Ford Motor. (Watch an interview with Ford CEO Alan Mulally...
...epithet; as the plot will show, Toby is more than a little weasely.) Chad, a tall, thin lad on the American team, is "Young Lankenstein" and "the boy from The Shining." James Gandolfini plays a dovish U.S. General here, not a Mafia don; still, it takes giant golden gonads to have the ex-Tony Soprano called "Shrek" to his face...
...Wendelin Wiedeking, departing CEO of German sports car maker Porsche, as the victim of a public lynching by media, few feel bad for him. Wiedeking had a 17-year run at Porsche, the Stuttgart-based sports car icon which has just failed in its bid to take over motoring giant Volkswagen and will now be merged into the VW group. He took the job when Porsche was on the skids and transformed the company into a lean, profitable manufacturer while reestablishing Porsche as a leading global brand...
...widespread across Africa - that's not something we have any involvement with." Still, the sticks are getting out, and the companies are cashing in. According to Emmanuel James-Odiase, an antitobacco counselor in Nigeria, more than 200 teens in his country begin smoking every day. (Read "Why a Tobacco Giant Backs a Tough New Antismoking Bill...
...laid in the 1880s, the entire line wasn't fully completed (on an upgraded track) until 2004, and at a cost of nearly $1 billion. Now, luxury trains up to one kilometer long, sometimes numbering 52 carriages, crawl through the forbidding primordial stretches of Outback twice a week, like giant high-speed caterpillars. It's a seemingly endless landscape of Martian redness, and to be able to enjoy it all from a private Platinum cabin - while taking high tea served to you by a personal butler - is a curious lesson in the persistence and ingenuity of humankind...