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Meanwhile, 99-year-old Goodrich, the nation's fourth largest rubber company, was taking a rather bumpy ride. Last year it earned only 3.9% on its $1.1 billion sales, lowest profit margin among the Big Four. Goodrich was obviously vulnerable to takeover because its ownership was widely scattered and the price-earnings ratio of its shares was relatively modest. It was not long before Goodrich began to draw the attention of a number of acquisitive companies, including Northwest. Goodrich Chairman Ward Keener, a onetime economics professor, began mapping defensive strategies as early as last June...
...million bond issue passed in 1962 by San Francisco, Alameda and Contra Costa counties. When inflated costs and design improvements necessitated an additional $150 million this year, the California legislature imposed a special half-cent hike in the three counties' state sales tax. This makes BART the largest locally financed public works project in U.S. history. It will also be the world's first fully automated rapid transit system and have the longest (800 ft.) subway station...
Nordek will introduce a third grouping into the European economic picture. With a population of 21 million and a combined gross national product of $50 billion, the four countries already constitute the European Common Market's second largest customer after the U.S. Under Nordek, they will remain in the seven-member European Free Trade Association,* through which four-fifths of intra-Scandinavian trade currently passes duty-free. They plan to establish a customs union that will free all trade among Nordic countries and enact common external tariffs against non-EFTA members. Most important, they will work toward closer economic...
...some section of the town, but the pool of trained firefighters was nearly exhausted. Besides local volunteers, firefighters from Montana, Idaho, and other Western states and laborers from the local prison were pressed into service on the fires, but the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (the BLM is the largest landowner in the country) needed still more...
...PIECE in the CRIMSON Supplement last Wednesday, I pointed out that the federal government has become the largest single source of income for American universities, according to U. S. Office of Education statistics. Harvard, a mild case among large private institutions, received 37.8 per cent of its total income from the federal government last year, as compared with 33.6 per cent from private gifts and endowment earnings. The piece showed how, without exerting any direct control, the federal government has changed the entire character of the university, converted it into a "service station," and deeply disturbed the internal university structure...