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...time of year for worshiping Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity, to whom all wise Indian businessmen annually offer their order books for a blessing. With his workers during the ceremony, his feet bare and his forehead glowing with a dot of vermilion, sat Shantanu Laxman Kirloskar, the U.S.-educated head of India's Kirloskar group, a seven-company combine that sells $46 million worth of farm and industrial equipment a year in 42 nations on every continent. Shantanu Kirloskar's respect for ancient rites is matched by his interest in modern and aggressive management. From...
Steel Plows for $8.40. The Kirloskar companies not only dominate their field at home (by producing 65% of India's diesel engines, 40% of its centrifugal pumps, 36% of its electric motors), but also symbolize the gradual change in India's old image as a mere exporter of raw materials. Nearly 20% of Kirloskar's diesels are sold abroad, from West Germany to California, and from the West Indies to the Persian Gulf. Kirloskar plants also turn out a neatly complementary array of products that range from air compressors to vertical turret lathes, from sluice valves...
...Kirloskar-"S.L." to his friends-is a compact (5 ft. 6 in., 150 Ibs.) man of 61 with bird-bright brown eyes and a penchant for gay-toned bow ties. After graduating from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1926, he got his little family-owned motor company to branch out into planters, seeders and harrows, invented a machine that speeded peanut shelling by 600% . Kirloskar has been branching out ever since, often by collaborating with foreign manufacturers. He runs his empire of nine scattered plants and 11,000 workers with a light hand. "I direct by invisible authority," he says...
Sugar Cane & Cow's Blood. Almost alone among Indian industrial complexes, Kirloskar has no roots in textiles...
...follows. Harvard 9126 M. I. T. 1926 Wintermute, g. g., Jones Tarnowsky, r.f.b. l.f.b., Karsch Gray (Captain), l.f.b. r.f.b., Cheney Brooks, r.h.b. l.h.b., Talbot Stahl, c,h.b. c.h.b., Merrick Phaneuf, l.h.b. r.h.b. Cummings Pero, o.r.f. o.l.f., Young Hord, i.r.f. i.l.f., Lin Tramonti, Dyer, c.f. c.f., Marques Wright, i.l.f. i.r.f., Kirloskar, Piper Wickersham, Nash, o.l.f. o.r.f., Hall
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