Word: maker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stroke was the tentative agreement to acquire Allis-Chalmers. If the stock-swap deal, worth some $366 million at current prices, comes off as planned, one of the nation's longest-running merger dramas will come to an end. Since last summer, the huge farm-and industrial-equipment maker has spurned the courtship of Dallas' LingTemco-Vought, been dropped by General Dynamics and forcefully wrenched from a third merger prospect, Signal Oil. That, reportedly, was the work of Kleiner, Bell & Co., a Beverly Hills brokerage firm, which holds some 15% of Allis-Chalmers stock. Kleiner, Bell President Burt...
...Harkness Ballet alone has commissioned more music scores than any U.S. orchestra except the New York Philharmonic. One sign of dance's expanding horizon is the interest of artists in exploring its possibilities. Painters Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Frank Stella have collaborated with Merce Cunningham; Underground Film Maker Ed Emshwiller is filming dancers in what may be a dance-dominated "total cinema...
...academic reputation. Such dynamism-though it left Pitt with a $19.5 million deficit by the time Litchfield departed-spilled over into industry, where he was a director of Avco and Studebaker Corp. and, from 1956 on, head of S.C.M., where he assembled a management team that lifted the typewriter maker out of the red to profits that hit $23.6 million last year...
...achievement of her boy students by rewarding them in an entirely extracurricular manner; a nun appearing on a Joe Pyne-style TV insult program is publicly reduced to a fluttering wreck when the M.C. savagely probes into her sex life; an aged international entertainment biggie, known only as Star Maker, stays alive on the transplanted organs of his employees...
...offer to head Cities Service, a company dominated by Oklahoma oilmen who, understandably, wanted to make their big corporation bigger. Burns took on the job, and started out to do what he thought the oilmen wanted. He tried to diversify Cities Service, acquired Fesco, Inc., a maker of molded-plastic housewares, and agreed to acquire, pending stockholder approval, Akron Equipment Co., a tire-mold manufacturer. So far so good. But Burns had also urged that Cities Service buy out Hugoton Production Co., a Kansas-based producer of natural gas, and a uranium mining and processing firm called United Nuclear Corp...