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...LOSER. Miller Chairman John A. Murphy has been known to take satisfaction out of wiping his feet on an office rug bearing the familiar eagle logo of Anheuser-Busch. Over at Anheuser-Busch, Chairman August Busch III has reportedly disparaged Miller's parent company, Philip Morris Inc. of New York City, by making derogatory remarks about "tobacco people" and lecturing his executives on the effects of smoking...
...companies in this quarter are expected to report profits that are about 20% lower than last year. Says Economist Otto Eckstein, chairman of Data Resources, Inc.: "We predicted bad results, but we've had to cut our forecasts back still further. Business should be a little better for the rest of the year, yet we expect that earnings will decline overall...
...latest case, the federal grand jury accused Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc., and three of its employees of deliberately overstating steel prices. Some American firms paid Mitsui the higher amounts, but then received refunds on part of the sales price. The figures were exaggerated to avoid triggering a U.S. investigation into possible steel dumping...
...Chairman C. Edward Acker predicted that the company would make a profit during the current quarter. Declining passenger traffic and cut-rate fares pushed income down for other carriers. American Airlines saw earnings tumble 98% to $466,000; Trans World Corp. posted a 27% decline to $41.6 million; UAL, Inc., parent company of United Airlines, suffered a 36% slump to $5.5 million; and Delta saw profits shrink 52% to $23 million...
...coal to form a mudlike slurry that would in turn be fed to other parts of the country. uch schemes are not pipe dreams: South Dakota earlier this year agreed to sell 50,000 acre-ft. of Missouri River water to a San Francisco-based consortium, Energy Transport Systems Inc., which plans to pump the water 260 miles to the coalfields of the Powder River Basin near Gillette, Wyo. Coal slurry would then be moved through conduits to power plants in the South...