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...Frontier. In recent years, foreign investors have together bought more acreage in Brazil than the combined territory of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The three biggest foreign owners are the British-owned Lancashire General Investment Co. (2,460,000 acres), J. G. Araujo Ltd., in which Texans are said to have an interest (1,977,000 acres) and Indianapolis real estate man Stanley Selig (1,519,000 acres). Not all the land buyers are speculators; many hard-working American farmers are among those who have gone to Brazil to reap the rewards of a new frontier...
Glassmakers of ancient Venice maintained world superiority quite simply: craftsmen caught spiriting trade secrets out of Venice were made galley slaves or killed by hired assassins. In the modern world of sheet glass, Britain's Pilkington Brothers, Ltd., maintains a comparable superiority in a more humane way: the company consistently outdoes rivals in research and development...
...Geneva headquarters of Interpublic's international operations. Gone are such nonadvertising units as a publisher of business books and a company set up to develop new business for Interpublic. Fashion International, a design-consultant subsidiary with offices in Paris and New York, as well as McDonald Research Ltd. of Canada, went under. Chicago Group Inc., a special-projects unit, was absorbed by Mc-Cann-Erickson's Chicago office, while one of Interpublic's nine advertising agencies, Fletcher Richards, was merged with Marschalk & Co. Ancillary units like Starflite Inc., which operated three airplanes mostly for Interpublic executives...
...past five years, annual sales have almost tripled, to $15.2 million-Rachal merged last month with Alon, Inc., a Kansas manufacturer of training aircraft. Moving into the twin-engine field, he has contracted to build a 300-m.p.h. turboprop executive plane designed by Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. And next year, in his most ambitious undertaking, Rachal will introduce the Mooney Mustang; a pressurized, single-engine private plane, it will cruise at 230 m.p.h. and altitudes...
...phase out unprofitable manufacture of heavy generators and transformers, concentrate on telecommunications and electronics, in which the company can compete against such foreign firms as ITT and General Telephone & Electronics Corp. of the U.S., Europe's Philips and Siemens A.G. and Japan's Nippon Electric Co. Ltd. "The future," insists the young executive, "lies with the giants." And Arnold Weinstock obviously classes himself with the giants...