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...list of big deals announced over the past twelve months includes the largest U.S. merger ever: General Electric's $2 billion purchase of Utah International, a company that mines coal and copper. Two other huge mergers: Mobil Oil's $1 billion acquisition of Marcor, the company that owns the Montgomery Ward department stores, and Atlantic-Richfield's $700 million buy-out of Anaconda, the copper-mining giant. Right now, Gulf Oil has offered $440 million for Kewanee Industries, an independent oil and gas producer; PepsiCo has bid $315 million in stock for Pizza Hut, a chain...
...public at least, those doctors who oppose licensed midwifery do not often speak of one reason that may be on their minds-money. Obstetrics is one of the largest and most lucrative specialties in U.S. medicine. Parents and proponents of midwifery are voluble on the subject of money, however. In California, for instance, the cost of having a baby has risen from $16 per hospital day in 1950 to $175 in 1976, and now stands at about $1,500 per birth. By contrast, the cost of birth at midwife-run institutions like the Los Angeles Childbirth Center is as little...
...even richer swath of Old Dominion farm land. It was John's son, Robert ("King") Carter, who became the first American millionaire. According to Harold Brooks-Baker, Debrett's managing director, hustling King Carter owned 300,000 acres, more than 1,000 slaves and perhaps the largest collection of books in the colonies -at a time, notes Brooks-Baker, when "wealth was measured by the number of fine volumes you had." King was also a banker; his three Virginia estates are still owned by Carters, the Fest of the FFV (First Families of Virginia...
...used as stiffeners in cigarette packages. Since then baseball cards have come with everything from Pepsi-Cola cartons to Burger Chef disposable trays. And, of course, bubble gum. Topps Chewing Gum, Inc., which prints 250 million cards a year and pays players $250 plus royalties to pose, makes the largest set -660 cards this year...
Like the New York Times, would-be use papers from the nighty New York News (circ. 2 million, the nation's largest) to the Albuquerque Journal (circ. 75,000) are launching how-to-do-it, where-to-get-it supplements. Papers that have had such news print service stations for years are allowing them more space and promoting them more heavily...