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Credit to Boot. The counterpoint to all this is played by Chicago's economic activity. Its geography, from the city's birth, made Chicago a key factor in trade. As rail lines marked it like tracer bullets, it became a Goliath, took on even more muscle when the St. Lawrence Seaway opened still another economic channel...
...Aiken, G.O.P. Leader Everett Dirksen noted that the Vermonter's middle name is David. Cried Ev: "I am confident that he will be like his namesake, David of old, who reached into the brook of Elah, and there found smooth stones for his slingshot with which to humble Goliath. In the same spirit, George Aiken will reach into the brook...
...proposed merger would create the free world's largest single line-a transportation goliath with 298 planes, 80,000 miles of routes touching six continents, and nearly $1 billion in annual revenues. Since TWA is Pan Am's only U.S. rival on European and Middle Eastern routes,* the merger would also, in effect, make Pan Am the U.S.'s chosen instrument on many of the world's most heavily traveled airlanes...
Snapping his red galluses in the sunshine, he sometimes seemed the same old showman. A Goliath of a man (6 ft. 8 in., 245 Ibs.), he still had some big ideas...
Five years ago, despite his fast-growing fortune, Lubin realized that he was still financially vulnerable. ''If anything happened to me, my whole estate was my business," he recalls. So he merged Sara Lee into Consolidated Foods, the food-processing, wholesaling, and retailing Goliath being assembled by Canadian-born Entrepreneur Nathan Cummings, 65. Cummings paid Lubin 170,000 shares of Consolidated stock-then worth nearly $3,000,000-and was shrewd enough to let the master baker continue to run his own shop...