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Hyman also argues that U.S. companies and Stateside banks, which presently hold 14% of all British deposits, act as a spur to make Britons perform better themselves. A hard-driving industrialist who makes all of Viyella's management decisions, he is particularly impressed by American marketing and productivity. "American businesses in Britain work back from the marketplace and simplify their plants," he says. "British businesses, through excessive product proliferation, are far less rational in their factories...
...past seven years, elusive Industrialist Howard Hughes and Trans World Airlines have been tangled in a complex legal battle. The conflict dates back to late 1960, when Hughes, in return for $165 million in loans to pay for TWA's first jets, had to surrender his 78.2% ownership of the airline to a voting trust controlled by the lending banks and insurance companies...
...most Americans, mills spell work, dirt and drudgery. Eager to preserve the charming houses and churches of colonial times, they have seemed downright anxious to destroy their industrial heritage. "Unfortunately, the industrialist who was made by the mills is the guy who cares the least about them now," says Pierson, who was active in efforts to preserve the mill. "All he's worried about is how to make a profit. And the biggest obstacles to preservation are the elected town officers, from the mayor on down. They are tough, pragmatic and just don't care about conserving...
...decade ago, TV Producer-Perform er David Susskind was generating some bright cultural rays with quality net work dramas and a provocative new talk show, Open End. At the same time, California Industrialist Norton W. Simon, president of Hunt Foods & In dustries', was making commercial his tory by buying up one new company after another. Since then, Susskind has been putting somewhat less emphasis on culture, and Simon has become in creasingly interested in it. Stung by a number of critically acclaimed produc tions that proved to be financial flops, Susskind has expanded into bread-and-butter situation shows...
Only his heirs could care whether a millionaire throws away $6,000. But veteran horsemen could not resist a tsk-tsk or two when Cincinnati Industrialist Lloyd Miller laid out that sum for a thoroughbred filly at the 1966 yearling auctions in Keeneland, Ky. The youngster's sire, Persian Road II, was so poorly regarded as a stallion that he later sold for only $6,000. Her dam, Home by Dark, had never raced and was stone-deaf to boot. The filly herself was more the size of a Shetland pony than a race horse and the only thing...