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...second matter involves certain provisions of Shaw's will. Shaw left the largest fortune of any dramatist in history. Having long been vitally interested in language, pronunciation, and script, he specified that most of his estate be used to seek out and promote a more efficient British alphabet of at least 40 letters; and that, when such an alphabet was found, a parallel edition of Androcles and the Lion be published with the traditional and the new, phonetic alphabet on opposite pages...
...largest single gift to the building fund drive so far, and brings the total of gifts and pledges to $2.8-million toward the project's estimated $6-million cost...
Directors of Wards and Container Corp. of America, the largest U.S. producer of paperboard packages (1967 sales: $463 million) agreed to wrap their fortunes in the same carton by forming a holding company. With Brooker, 63, as chairman and chief executive, and Container Corp. President Leo H. Schoenhofen, 53, as president, the holding company would run both firms as autonomous subsidiaries retaining their own identities. Stockholders of both companies still must approve the combine, but Brooker cannily concocted a deal so sweet that Container shareholders, at least, should find it hard to spurn...
...year that flow of money reached $900 million, and this year it is expected to grow even further, to $1.5 billion. Reinforcing the trend, Germany's aggressive Dresdner Bank has just decided to move into the stock-brokerage business in the U.S. The bank, Germany's second largest, with assets of $3.9 billion, is forming a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary for its new venture. It has already won permission to buy a seat on the Boston Stock Exchange, where it will be the first foreign member. The bank also has applied for a seat on the Midwest Stock...
...harvesting the first successes." One of Vierhub's main aims is to "transform staid bank clerks into money salesmen"-a formula that works at home as well as abroad. One of the Dresdner's mutual funds, Concentra, has grown into the country's second largest (assets: $226 million). From its coequal headquarters in the cities of Frankfurt, Dusseldorf and Hamburg, the bank has opened 650 branches across West Germany, adds new ones at the rate of 70 a year. Last year the effort to woo deposits proved so successful that the Dresdner's total funds increased...