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Meanwhile, insured claims for the Detroit riot losses are estimated at $200 million, the largest yet. (Watts was $38 million, Newark $15 million.) Total damage could be considerably higher. Some damaged ghetto properties were considered uninsurable. Insurance generally covers only about half the actual property damage in most riots. Moreover, most policies do not cover personal riot injuries...
United, the nation's largest, set a half-year record with revenues of $521,474,000 and earnings of $32,192,000, and Delta did so well that last week it an nounced a 3-1 stock split. But Pan American's second-quarter earnings fell...
Last week, in one of the year's more unusual mergers, Geneen agreed to buy Levitt & Sons, Inc., the world's largest home builder, for $92 million worth of ITT stock. The building company, which showed a whole industry how to change the face of postwar suburbia, would operate as an autonomous subsidiary under President William J. Levitt...
...earning minuscule profits and quite a bit of ill will with an ancient DC-3 fleet that was forever running late. Since then, Frontier has picked up speed enough to become a leader among the nation's 13 local service carriers. In 1966, it not only earned the largest profit ($1,790,000) among the regionals but also showed the greatest increase (58%) among all U.S. scheduled airlines in revenue passenger miles-the number of paying customers multiplied by distance flown...
...enjoy making music-U.S. parents are buying a record number of pianos. In 1966, sales hit 243,800, nearly 100,000 more than a decade ago. The company that is hitting the top notes of this financial fortissimo is privately owned Aeolian* Corp., the world's largest manufacturer of pianos, which last year crafted 50,000 units and grossed nearly $30 million...