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...competitive free-enterprise system. Ever since, many Americans who never read Marx and who believe firmly in the free-enterprise system have feared that the same thing might happen. Last week a man who should know tried to lay that fear to rest. He is Economist A.D.H. Kaplan, who spent seven years studying big business for the Brookings Institution and who published his findings last week in a new book, Big Enterprise in a Competitive System...
While corporations have grown much bigger, says Economist Kaplan, the number competing with each other has also grown. Where, 53 years ago, there were only four industrial companies with assets of more than $200 million, in 1951 there were 15 with assets of more than $1 billion, and more than twice as many with assets above $500 million. At the same time, the total number of businesses has grown faster than the population, increasing from 15.4 per 1,000 persons...
...Coal (now Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal) from 15th to 94th. Five companies among the first ten on the 1948 list (General Motors, second; Standard Oil of Indiana, fourth; Socony-Vacuum Oil, fifth; Du Pont, eighth; Ford Motor Co., tenth) did not even appear among the first 100 in 1909. Says Kaplan: "Industrial leadership at the big business level is precarious...
Other shareholders in the telecasting corporation who are closely associated with Harvard are Arthur K. Solomon, assistant professor of Physiological Chemistry, and Mrs. Felicia L. Kaplan, wife of Benjamin Kaplan '26, professor of Law. Phillip H. Rhinelander '29, lecturer on Philosophy and General Education, was also a member of the group, but dropped out because of ill health...
Ronald F. Kaplan: Freshman Football, Fencing, Lacrosse; Varsity Lacrosse; Crimson Key Society; Student Council--Committee on Foreign Students; PBH; Harvard Dramatic Club--Publicity, Chairman; Varsity Club; Glee Club...