Word: maker
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...troubles in the skies are hitting aircraft manufacturers almost as hard as the airlines. Boeing, the largest maker of civilian planes, saw its earnings plunge 42%, to $96 million, in the fourth quarter. The company plans to cut its Seattle work force by 5,000 people. Reduced demand for airplanes also forced McDonnell Douglas last week to cancel a deal with Fokker BV of The Netherlands to build a 150-passenger jet. The St. Louis company expects to absorb a $50 million loss on DC-10 orders that Laker Airways had placed but cannot...
...number of U.S. companies have noted a modish increase in their profits as well. Gerber Products in Fremont, Mich., makers of baby food, pacifiers, baby bottles and other merchandise, recorded sales of $282.6 million at the end of 1972. Last year sales had swelled to $631 million. Child Craft, in Salem, Ind., a baby-furniture maker, has noted a "remarkable upsurge" in sales. One of the reasons, says David Branaman, vice president of sales, is that some couples spend up to $2,500 on clothing, furniture and equipment by the time the baby comes home from the hospital...
Ripploh is not the only young German film maker to veer sharply from the baroquely stylized work of Fassbinder and Herzog. Four of the five new German films in the U.S. are rooted in headline reality. Christiane F. is based on interviews with a 15-year-old Berlin prostitute and heroin addict that appeared in the newsmagazine Stern. It is a tale to blanch the parental conscience, for here are children barely in their teens who whore, steal, shoot up and, too often, drop dead. Chic-pretty, lipsticked and long-haired, dressed in Annie Hall punk, negotiating puberty on stork...
With all of its flaws, however, Torch Song Trilogy, is a remarkable achievement. All the actors seem right, and several are exceptional, but the evening, in acting as well as writing, clearly belongs to Fierstein, 27. The son of a Brooklyn handkerchief maker, he began working as a drag queen in East Village clubs at 16 before turning to playwriting at 19. Onstage, his voice derives from Tallulah Bankhead, and his drag-queen clothes would look good on Carmen Miranda. In every other way he is unique. Like the very best actors, he does not play a part, he inhabits...
...cases, like that of Engineer Kenneth Olsen of Digital Equipment Corp. in Maynard, Mass., the innovative founder develops the managerial skills to run a large, complex organization. In other cases, the entrepreneur gets in trouble and must get help from professional managers. Centronics Data Computer Corp., a New Hampshire maker of computer printers founded by Robert Howard in 1968, ran into financial problems in 1980. Managinto financial problems in 1980. Managers from Xerox and Raytheon were brought in to help. Losses ran to $24.5 million on sales of $123.9 million from June 1980 to June 1981. The company has signed...