Word: levitts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...already spread into hotels (Sheraton), car renting (Avis), home building (Levitt & Sons), book publishing (Bobbs-Merrill) and bread (Continental Baking). Why would this aggressive giant want slow-moving Hartford Fire? One likely reason is that the insurance company has a valuable portfolio of securities that might be used to produce handsome capital gains for the merged companies...
Athletic secretary Dan Levitt said he feels that Adams has a basically, solid team and a great defense. "But we're just not putting it all together on offense," he said...
Astronomer I. M. Levitt, director of the Pels Planetarium of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute, believes that colonizers of the moon will eventually produce their own water, a contained atmosphere, food and other necessities completely from lunar materials. He envisages vegetables grown from seed, rooted in tanks of water in which the necessary lunar minerals have been dissolved. His moon colonies, complete with farm animals and factories, launch pads and lunar surface vehicles, and the comforts of home, would be located underground?in sealed-off caves and domes?to protect inhabitants against meteors, solar radiation and the extremes of lunar temperatures...
...would the inhabitants want for luxuries. Levitt believes that virtually anything man?or woman?might desire can be produced on the moon by combining available minerals with a source of energy to produce chemical reactions. One of Levitt's chemical chains, beginning with carbon and calcium, can lead to the manufacture of medicines, plastics, dyes, food additives, rubber, ceramics, even fertilizers and textiles. "Naturally, we're going to insist that the girls go with us to the moon," grins Levitt, "and when we get there we'll be able to make all of their lipsticks, perfumes, nail polishes?you name...
...Harold S. Geneen describes his $2.8-billion International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. as a "unified-management, multiproduct company." On that principle, in 48 major acquisitions in the last nine years, ITT has acquired a hotel chain (Sheraton), a car-rental company (Avis), a book publisher (Bobbs-Merrill), a home-builder (Levitt & Sons, Inc.), a paper and chemical company (Rayonier, Inc.) and assorted other ventures. Something Geneen still does not have is a consumer foods company. Last week he moved to remedy that deficiency by announcing that ITT, in an exchange of stock valued at $280 million, will soon acquire Continental Baking...