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...Tops. Maybe he was across the street, casing the competition: Kirk Kerkorian's new 1,519-room International Hotel, which laid claim to a few superlatives itself. The "world's biggest" eternal flame (35 ft. high) burned brightly outside the entrance, while the "world's largest" swimming pool (350,000 gallons), located on the second-floor-roof "recreation deck," leaked water into the "world's biggest" casino (30,000 sq. ft.), directly below. Dwarfed by a stage as large as that of Radio City Music Hall, Barbra Streisand belted out Hello, Dolly and On a Clear...
Attorney General John Mitchell has gone much farther than any of his pre decessors toward promoting the proposition that bigness in business is intrinsically bad. In June he warned that the Government "may very well" chal lenge any merger between two of the largest 200 U.S. companies. Last week Mitchell proved to be as good as his word. His trustbusters announced that they will file suit to block the planned merger of Harold Geneen's International Telephone & Telegraph, the biggest and one of the best-managed conglomerates, with Hartford Fire Insurance Co. The merger would rank among the largest...
Mitchell is alarmed by what he calls the "super-concentration" of U.S. in dustry. The 200 largest companies, he notes, now control 58% of manufacturing assets, up from...
...This could easily apply to the ITT-Hartford case; ITT already owns a life insurance company, and presumably could have expanded its operations into Hartford's field of property and liability coverage. Theoretically, the doctrine could apply to practically any big merger, since the very largest companies have the financial resources to enter almost any industry that they really want...
Mount Newman mine, which is 60% Australian owned. Under his feet was Australia's largest known iron-ore deposit, an estimated 1 billion tons, enough to make about 563 million tons of steel, or almost as much as the entire world produced last year...