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Founded in 1891 by two ambitious young engineers, Englishman Charles E. L. Brown and Bamberg-born Walter Boveri, the firm got going with a felicitous marriage. Boveri's father-in-law, a wealthy Zurich silk merchant, provided the partners with an initial $170,000 stake. But technology was B.B.C.'s real dowry. The firm built a pioneering standard-gauge electric locomotive in 1899, rolled a long way with the expansion of European railroads, and soon began turning out early designs in circuit breakers, turbines and other heavy gear. And while its labs now work on cryogenics, lasers...
...Accident is Losey at his most disciplined. Still, one suspects come fear behind the self-control, a lack of instinct as to how to treat the material, Due largely to sloppy lab work, I suspect, the color is disappointing, but Accident's acting, by Bogarde, Stanley Baker, and Vivienne Merchant, is extraordinary...
...Cheese Merchant's Daughter. Christiansen business got its start in Billund during the early 1930s when his father, a carpenter unable to find work in the depressed village, began making wooden toys in his workshop. Naming his enterprise Lego, a contraction for the Danish leg godt (meaning play well), Ole Kirk Christiansen peddled his toys by bicycling about in the surrounding countryside. When Godtfred reached 14 he dropped out of the village school to join his father, after World War II helped swing Lego into the manufacture of plastic toy animals...
...quiet but intense man who married the daughter of the cheese merchant in a neighboring village, Godtfred Christiansen today runs his business in a complex of modern buildings that he has put up around his father's old workshop. With little formal education, he reads so haltingly that he prefers to have aides deliver reports orally-but he makes up for all that with a sharp business mind. To market his product in Europe, for example, Christiansen shunned toy wholesalers to set up his own network of 13 sales branches. He explains: "We would have disappeared in the multitude...
...SEAWAYS & AIRWAYS. Ripe for reduction is the $600 million yearly subsidy to the aged, ailing merchant marine. A presidential task force recommended a two-thirds slash over a long-term period, but so far the powerful U.S. shipbuilding lobby has blocked the plan. In the air, the $54 million subsidy to regional airlines could be brought down much further because efficient small jets have bolstered the profits of the little lines...