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While most Americans were enjoying fun and fireworks on the Fourth of July weekend, teams of executives from Conoco Inc. and Du Pont and Co. had forsaken friends and family to work almost round the clock on the biggest merger in U.S. corporate history. Du Pont, the largest U.S. producer of chemicals, had secretly offered to buy Conoco, the ninth biggest American oil company. After five hectic days of staff work, the deal seemed set. On Sunday night of the July Fourth weekend, Du Pont Chairman Edward Jefferson flew from his headquarters in Wilmington, Del., aboard a King Air twin...
Dean Witter Reynolds, a leading Wall Street brokerage house, has already raised more than $165 million from investors for Public Storage Inc. of Pasadena, Calif., the nation's largest miniwarehouse chain. Public Storage operates 165 separate warehouses, located mostly in the Sunbelt. Shearson Loeb Rhoades is helping to finance the growth of rival Colonial Storage Group of Odessa, Texas, which was founded in 1969 and now has 81 facilities in operation. Meanwhile, Merrill Lynch has also entered the field, with a $15 million miniwarehouse investment program for pension funds...
...coverage is centered on current men's fashion developments it also features fitness news, grooming tips, audio rundowns, features, etc. etc." Originally founded in 1928 as a fashion booklet displayed in men's clothing stores, it became a full-fledged magazine in 1931 under the auspices of Apparel Arts. Inc. Apparel Arts eventually became so successful that it started Esquire, which in the late 1950s, turned around and swallowed GQ altogether. Then in 1979 Conde and Nash bought the operation, and they run it to this day. Conde and Nash also publish Vogue, House and Garden Glamour, and Mademoiselle...
...incident received national attention when the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Sunday that Robert J. Myers, deputy commissioner of Social Security, had said the administration "changed" unemployment projections submitted in January by Eckstein's firm, Data Resources, Inc., to paint a more somber picture of the Social Security system's future...
Last week it was suddenly the other way around. The nation's ninth largest oil company, Conoco Inc. of Stamford, Conn. (1980 sales: $18.8 billion), became the reluctant target, rather than the proud suitor, in a corporate takeover raid. The predator was none other than Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, U.S. subsidiary of Canadian-based Seagram Co. Ltd., the world's largest liquor distiller, with 1980 global revenues of $2.5 billion...