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...contrast, spectacle abounds in Princess Ida, the spring opera offering of the Gilbert and Sullivan Players. Aside from the Hasty Pudding musical, the opera has the largest budget of any student production, and the shows usually show it. Topnotch voices are frequently displayed as well...
Purolator President John Pratt said yesterday the robbery is the largest in his company's history. $4.3 million in cash was stolen in Chicago from the company in 1974, but all but $900.000 was recovered. Pratt said. Purolator is one of the nation's largest armored car manufacturers...
...with office colleagues. Twenty years ago, in a speech that offended Paley, Murrow proposed a plan similar in some respect to the plan Paley now offers. In a cold war period when Murrow thought the country "in mortal danger," the newsman proposed that each of the 20 or 30 largest corporate advertisers give up one or two of their regular programs each year, turning the time over to networks to present serious public affairs programs on their own. They would be saying, as Murrow put it: "This is a tiny tithe, just a little bit of our profits . . . to indicate...
...July 25, a special task force of the Federal Energy Administration reported that ARCO and the 14 other largest refiners might have over-charged American consumers by billions of dollars. Investigations are still ongoing...
...reaching is also the term for ARCO's economic power. With annual revenues in 1977 topping $11 billion, and a net profit before taxes of close to a billion dollars, the Atlantic Richfield Company is one of the nation's largest oil firms. In 1977, it acquired the Anaconda Company, a leading mineral producer. Today ARCO's interests extend to copper, aluminum, coal, uranium, a few solar and geothermal energy operations, and even a London newspaper, The Observer...