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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lance was fond of saying, "Folks are serious about three things. Their religion. Their family. And, most of all, their money." Quite a few trusted him to handle their money. The NBG's assets doubled to $400 million, making the bank Georgia's fifth largest...
...gradually shrinking in population. The other is relatively young and still growing. Yet Philadelphia (pop. 1,788,000) and Houston (pop. 1,442,000), the nation's fourth and fifth largest cities, share a common problem. Their police forces have earned evidently deserved reputations for brutality, especially among minority citizens...
Paine Webber, the fourth largest publicly traded brokerage firm in terms of revenue in 1976, has just issued a review of the 15 securities-firm shares. It rehearses the many troubles of the trade-increasing Government regulation, a cautious attitude on the part of big investors. Further, it finds that brokers have uncomfortably high ratios of debt to capital and argues that the firms' earnings are on "a fragile foundation" because brokers, like their customers, never know what the market is going to do and have no way of forecasting the level of future business. With trading volume...
...Hirokichi Yoshiyama, president of Hitachi Ltd., said, "Its effect will not be visible" until the end of the fiscal year next March. Washington policymakers were more generous. One Treasury official described the plan as a "kick in the back" that will propel the non-Communist world's second largest economy forward. Said he with a sigh: "Now if we could only get the Germans to reflate as well...
That left two outfits in the running. The first was the El Paso Co., one of the nation's largest gas transmission firms (1976 sales: $1.4 billion). It advocated an "all-American" solution: building a gas pipeline alongside the existing Alaskan oil pipeline to the port of Valdez, where the gas would be liquefied and shipped in special tankers to California...