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...Waugh Co. said that its bids were consistently the lowest-averaging 20% below successful bids in counties where Waugh did not compete-yet it never got a state contract. The defendant companies are studded with Wallace cronies. American Materials & Supply Co., the state's largest supplier last year, has a secretary-treasurer who was a Wallace campaign aide. His driver and errand boy in the 1962 campaign is now an officer of the Wire-grass Construction Co., also named in the suit. The case will probably come to trial in the fall, when it could prove embarrassing to Wallace...
...Penney Co., the nation's second-largest general merchandiser (after Sears, Roebuck & Co.), rang up $208 million sales in March, thus outracing last March by 8.3% and completing a five-year stretch of consecutive monthly-sales increases. Since 1962, sales have risen from $1.7 billion to 1967's $2.75 billion-a 60% increase that edged out Sears's (59%), far exceeded that of third-ranked Montgomery Ward...
...reason is that the 625 largest U.S. companies account for more than half of the nation's industrial exports. To encourage smaller firms to hunt for overseas business, the Commerce Department has been revving up official trade missions. Last week some 40 U.S. executives hustled to Sydney and Melbourne with the help of Pan American to search for orders for everything from automatic controls to waste-disposal systems. "We can't sit on our duffs and wait for this business to come to us," said Chairman John R. Kimberly of papermaking Kimberly-Clark. Such efforts...
...nation's gravest trade ailments have been concocted in Washington. The trouble consists of federal deficits, easy tolerance of wage increases that outstrip rising productivity, and the pursuit of economic growth at the expense of stable prices. Even so, the U.S. still has the world's largest and most efficient economy, along with an impressive lead in finance, marketing and much technology. If the nation has the self-discipline to bring its inflation-bent economy under control, the worst of its difficulties with foreign competition should slowly diminish...
Responsible for most, though by no means all, of the eye-catching campaigns is Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, 61, the freewheeling chairman of Publicis, France's largest private ad agency (billings: $43 million). Bleustein-Blanchet founded Publicis in 1927, gradually expanded the business by piloting his own plane around the country in search of contracts. After World War II, during which he flew for the Free French, he had to rebuild Publicis almost from scratch. In the process, he picked up such major accounts as Shell, Colgate-Palmolive and Renault. He also gave the agency a profitable sideline by opening...