Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grants have been drastically cut. And the latest policy on the draft will serve to empty the graduate schools, drain them of tuition money, and send them begging. (On the other hand, of course, as the economy booms along on war profits, Harvard makes some extra money in the market...
Despite Lockheed's quick start, McDonnell Douglas is grabbing the first-and possibly decisive-foothold in the 1,000-plane airbus market partly because U.S. airlines are still smarting over the performance of Lockheed's last commercial transport, the turboprop Electra. In 1959, Electras began coming apart in midair; Lockheed spent $25 million strengthening structural weaknesses, and the plane has performed splendidly ever since. With the American order in hand, Douglas may have a bargaining edge, too, with airlines such as United, Eastern and Delta, which are also shopping...
...maker of rolling mills and forging presses. Before leaving for Moscow, he suggested to several Italian businessmen that he might seek out commercial opportunities for their companies. The Italians were interested-but, at that point, the Russians were not. "I discovered that the Soviet Union was an important market," says Savoretti, "but that Italy was known for its music and art and literature-not for its industry...
Responsible for Taiwan's getting into the steel business is Minister of Economic Affairs K. T. Li, 58, who is quick to play down his role. "The market dictates everything," says Li. "I dictate nothing." But Li's part in the island's economic emergence is well known. Educated at Cambridge University, he interrupted his graduate physics studies in 1937 and returned to China to help in the war effort. Li became an industrial planner, ran an iron-and-steel works, then set up a shipyard in Shanghai before moving to Taiwan when the mainland fell...
Klockner already had control of 32% of Fahr's stock when, in December, it learned that International Harvester, which last year had sales of $2.5 bil lion, had hinted it might offer Fahr up to $100 for shares valued at $15 on the market. With sales of $335 million, Klockner could hardly match the Chicago company's bid. But neither Klock ner nor the 500 members of the Fahr family and their 4,000 employees wanted an American owner to take over the 98-year-old company. They remembered only too well what happened to Heinrich Lanz...