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...Bath Iron Works in Bath, Me., officials anxiously await the Government contract order for more new $200 million guided-missile frigates. At Litton Industries in Beverly Hills, executives are putting final plans together for a $64 million expansion to accommodate expected new Pentagon business. A few miles away in Hawthorne, Calif., the Northrop Corp. is preparing to quadruple production of the Navy's F/A-18 fighter plane to two per month...
...presidential commission headed by Litton Industries President Roy Ash recommended to Nixon that seven departments (Labor, Agriculture, Transportation, Interior, Commerce, HEW and HUD) be merged into four: Natural Resources, Human Resources, Economic Development and Community Development. The proposal was made at a tune when the Democratic Congress felt resentful of Nixon's aggressive assertion of presidential powers, constitutional and otherwise...
More than 40 firms, including MCI, Litton Industries and Southern Pacific Communications, have filed their own suits against A T & T. Bell was eager to settle the Government case so that evidence the Justice Department had been gathering would not be revealed in court and later used in the private suits...
...lively new magazine called Next, published by a subsidiary of Litton Industries Inc., has found a popular niche by concentrating on "two, five or ten years down the road" and has doubled its initial circulation of 200,000 in its first year. Sometimes, to get attention, it asks unanswerable questions on its cover ("Will There Ever Be a Jewish President?"). Its current issue, hailing the 1980s, proclaims it the Decade to Remember, foreseeing "fat and not lean years," a revival of Yankee ingenuity, and major advances in medicine...
...contract is also important because it gives the giant commercial planemaker a larger share of defense business, where it has been less important than either McDonnell Douglas or General Dynamics. But other companies are also victors. McDonnell Douglas and Litton Industries together will earn about $1.4 billion making the new weapon's navigational electronics. Teledyne and Williams Research Corp., a small private firm located in Walled Lake, Mich., will divide an estimated $1 billion spent for turbine engines. Some 20 other defense contractors will also win smaller parts of this aerospace business bonanza...