Word: marietta
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...when a man sidled up to him and said, "Give 'em hell." Feldstein beamed. He is receiving about 70 letters a week, most of them favorable. Keep it up." wrote a Seattle woman. "Thank you for calling 'em as you see 'em." wrote a man from Marietta, Ga. With supporters from coast to coast, maybe he will even find a few backat the Harvard faculty lounge...
Flom represented Allied Corp., which came to Bendix's defense after former Chairman William Agee's attempt to take over Martin Marietta failed and Martin Marietta counterattacked by buying Bendix stock. Allied bought Bendix stock so Martin Marietta could not buy enough to gain control. That made Allied a white knight...
...Martin Marietta's tactic was a prime example of the Pac-Man defense, whereby a threatened company responds to a takeover bid by trying to buy up its attacker's stock. Another defense is the self-tender. A company threatened by takeover of fers to buy its own shares at prices higher than the attacker...
...portable and flexible. Intoximeters Inc. of St. Louis produces the transistor radio-size Alco-Sensor, which is being used for roadside tests by police in cities like New York. The $390 device gives a digital readout when the suspect breathes into its plastic mouthpiece. In July, Allstate Distributors of Marietta, Ga., introduced a coin-operated tester for use in taverns...
Cunningham announced her departure only a few weeks after returning from an unpaid summer sabbatical during which she wrote her memoirs of the turbulent past four years. The book, due in May, will provide her account of the Bendix-Martin Marietta-United Technologies-Allied takeover wrangle. Cunningham wrote the book at the home she shares with Agee, a $1.9 million turn-of-the-century house in Cape Cod's Oyster Harbors. There they have built an office, complete with a partners' desk, from which they will run Semper...