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Perhaps not since the first postwar Volkswagen gunned into view has there been such a word-of-mouth consumer success as the Wilkinson Super Sword-Edge razor blade. When it was first introduced in Britain by the stodgy, 1 go-year-old Wilkinson Sword Ltd. (sword cutlers by appointment to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II). the Super Sword immediately took over 10% of the British blade market. Men who normally scraped through three shaves with the best blade available found they got more than ten with a Super Sword. Its farne spread to the Continent, then to the U.S.; supplies...
Later in the week, Zeckendorf retrenched still more, sold off one-third of Manhattan's Savoy Hilton Hotel (which he owns, but which is managed by Hilton) to London Merchant Securities, Ltd., a British investment trust. He has also agreed to sell 850 acres of development land in California...
Cheaper Than Concubines. The brothers work in rare tandem. They share a joint bank account, have adjacent offices at Sir Elly Kadoorie & Sons. Ltd., which is named after their late father, an Iraqi Jew who became a naturalized British subject, went to Hong Kong in 1880 and carved out a fortune in land, rubber, banking and insurance. Together, the brothers sit on the boards of 36 major companies. Restless, sophisticated Lawrence Kadoorie, 63, has also been on several government administrative boards, pays particular attention to the power company, the biggest Kadoorie investment. He collects ancient Chinese art works because...
...Stepping up to the honorary presidency of his huge Rank Organisation Ltd., Britain's shrewd Lord Rank, 73, turned over the chairmanship to John Henry Davis, 55. Five years ago, as Rank's deputy in running Britain's biggest film studios and theater chain (507 houses), Davis, a onetime accountant, decided that increased pay and leisure would lure working-class Britons away from the movies to other and costlier forms of entertainment. Accordingly, the Rank Organisation closed or sold 148 theaters and put the proceeds into dance halls, bowling centers, highway restaurants and a new electronics division...
...oxygen process (see below). And it has one other remarkable attribute: it almost runs by computer. From receipt of customers' orders to the final finishing of bars, its operations will be scheduled and supervised by a unique corps of machinery designed by Britain's Elliott-Automation Ltd...