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...eight foreign countries, now controls 186 concrete plants, 40 quarries and a Malayan tin mine. Last year Ready Mixed doubled its profit to $2,400,000. Placid Chairman Palmer, who meticulously limits himself to an eight-hour workday and refuses to take papers home, intends to maintain the same headlong expansion into any area "where labor is costly...
...Headlong military mobilization of Indonesia's slim resources has thrown the economy into chaos. The country's hard currency and gold reserves, estimated at $300 million, are exhausted. The black-market rate for U.S. dollars has climbed 100% in eight months. The price for once-plentiful rice has trebled in three months. In wide areas, famine is raging, and troop rations have been slashed to rush food to the people. Thousands of people were suffering from malnutrition, and near Djakarta 70 were reported dead of starvation...
...extraction in the Dead Sea to Middle East Airlines (51% control), and Bedas is planning still more branches and affiliates in France, Italy, Brazil and Afri ca. Conservative Western financiers, un accustomed to the rough and tumble of Levantine business, are sometimes in clined to look askance at this headlong expansion and at the fact that Bedas, de spite the growing complexity of Intra's operations, continues to run it as a one-man show. But last week, as he hopped from Rome to Paris to London inspecting his empire, cocky Yusuf Bedas pooh-poohed any suggestion of overextension...
...nowhere has it satisfied man's most fundamental demand in life, to be properly fed. Throughout the Communist empire, from Castro's Cuba to Mao's China, breadline societies are an inevitable result of Marxism's ingrained distrust of the peasantry and its insistence on headlong industrialization...
...long illness; in Byram, Conn. The son and grandson of wealthy oilmen, Teagle rebuilt Standard after it was fragmented by a court decree in 1911, before he retired in 1942 mapped the overseas operations that made the company a world power in oil, but spared enough attention from his headlong expansion of Standard to pioneer in worker representation on refinery councils and (in 1915) the eight-hour...