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With the Cord Corp. in hand, V.E. changed his tactics. The crash of one empire had taught him a lesson. Instead of mushrooming all over, he tried to make some sense out of the rickety maze of companies (45) he had. He wanted to turn Cord, the bad holding company, into a good operating company. One of his first moves was to drop the Cord name, substitute Aviation and Transportation Corp. for the top holding company. Then, like a horse trader, he sold, bartered and junked the money-losing companies in ATCO and AVCO and a holding company of lower...
From there on the trail followed by the Meadmen was a maze of 16 interlocked companies whose assets were kited back and forth with the stroke of a pen. Up went the combine's contracts-at war's end they had got $78,000,000 worth of business out of the Government...
Upon these basic rules (and others closely related), physicists built an imposing structure of knowledge. They predicted the motions of the earth, the moon, the planets. They derived a maze of useful mechanical sub-laws. They explained the behavior of gases, and discovered the nature of heat. Newton's laws did not account for everything, but the physicists felt that this was due to their own ignorance. Eventually, they were sure, all phenomena could be explained in Newton's terms...
...cool for June, Vag thought, as he came out of the Harvard Square kiosk and put down his B-4 bag. He lighted a cigarette, picked up his bag and cautiously waited for an opening in the maze of automobiles...
...quiet fury, John Rogon set out to recover his father's body. The trail took him through an incredible, criminal maze of official bungling and indifference...