Word: inces
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...throughout the U.S., controls 57 subsidiary companies, and has branched into the manufacture of jet-engine parts, guitars, and survival equipment for spacemen. Through his own outside investments, Bluhdorn also controls the East's 197-store Bohack supermarket chain, and is the third largest shareholder in Ward Foods, Inc...
...ROLL Psychical Research Foundation, Inc. Durham...
...decorator cabinets that can run the cost of a TV set (average: $550) up to $1,600. Both Miller TV Products Co. of High Point, N.C. (which supplies RCA and Motorola), and Drexel Furniture (which supplies Motorola) have greatly stepped up production to meet demand. Small Muntz TV Inc. recently bought into a Michigan cabinetmaker in order to protect its supply, and other TV makers are looking over cabinetmakers with an acquisitive eye. The increased TV work, meanwhile, has produced an unanticipated shortage of wood for hi-fi sets, pianos and organs...
...usually equal one-third to one-half of the executives' working salaries, and in some cases much more. What the corporate celebrities really miss are the old powers, pressures and personal contacts-the feeling of being on the inside and the sense of responsible activity. Some companies (Honeywell Inc., American Express and Jersey Standard, among others) try to fill the gap by giving their retired chief executives and directors a base for new activities; they provide them with office space, but it is usually segregated from the men at work...
Diversification is now a top item on Singer's agenda. Earlier this year, Scripto acquired Modern Carpet Industries Inc., a Georgia-based rug manufacturer, thus expanding into a field that Carl Singer knows well: the booming $15 billion-a-year home-furnishings industry. Singer intends, after building up capital for about a year, to look around actively for other fields far beyond both writing instruments and cigarette lighters...