Word: levitts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision to cancel the examination, which was in progress, came after Theodore Levitt, professor of Business Administration and head of market studies, met with the ten-member Student Education Committee. The SEC representatives told Levitt that an estimated 10 per cent of the 800-member first-year class had advance knowledge of the examination's content...
...weeks ago Fruehauf Corp the producer of truck trailers, threw in the hammer and joined a long parade of big companies out of the modular-housing field. In the last year or so ITT Levitt, Florida Gas Co., Potlatch Forests Inc., Hercules Inc. and Wickes Corp along with a score of smaller firms, also pulled put of the industry. Last year Florida's Behring Corp. cut its losses and closed down the nation's largest house-building plant. Beset by production and marketing troubles, another industry leader, Stirling Homex, crashed into bankruptcy seven months...
Today the Los Angeles-based company, under 39-year-old Chairman Broad (rhymes with road), is the nation's second largest home builder, behind ITT Levitt. In the last five years, K. & B. sales jumped by a phenomenal average of 50% annually, to last year's $225 million. Last week the company reported that, partly as a result of acquisitions, after-tax profits in the year's first half jumped...
Directed by GORDON DAVIDSON Screenplay by DANIEL BERRIGAN and SAUL LEVITT...
...other things operate the hot line between Washington and Moscow, manufacture telephones in Australia, Brazil and Norway, and run the Hamilton mutual funds in the U.S. A consumer who became annoyed with ITT would have a difficult time boycotting it: he could not rent an Avis car, buy a Levitt house, sleep in a Sheraton hotel, park in an APCOA garage, use Scott's fertilizer or seed, eat Wonder Bread or Morton frozen foods. He would have to turn his eyes away from the advertising posters on commuter trains and buses (ITT owns TDI, the company that rents space...