Word: milles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...powder mill that Eleuthere Irenée du Pont de Nemours built in 1802 on the banks of Delaware's Brandywine River has exploded into a vast corporation that did $3.6 billion worth of business last year, and now ranks 18th on FORTUNE'S roster of the largest U.S. industrial companies. Du Font's base remains in tiny Delaware, 47th in population among the states. That disparity in size intrigued Economist Lewis Anthony Dexter, who studied the situation in 1963 and concluded: "The elephant takes care not to dance among the chickens." It also intrigued Ralph Nader...
Offsetting Increases. Two big steelmakers, Bethlehem and National, won increases of slightly more than 7% for the price of tinned mill products, which are used to make tin cans. Can companies promptly made plans to apply for offsetting increases in their prices. If those are granted, food companies that use the cans are certain to do the same, and so on, until the boost reaches the consumer. The Price Commission also approved a 3.8% increase in the advertising rates of Chicago's Field Enterprises, but turned down the bid of Virginia's Bassett Furniture Industries to boost prices...
...miles west of Marseille, Fos has already become a major unloading point for Middle East oil, is equipped with a mile-long quay for supertankers, and has attracted some $2.5 billion in private investment. Wendel-Si-delor, France's largest steel company, is building a $1.3 billion mill to turn out 7,000,000 tons a year, about one-third of the present national output. At six other points along the same stretch of Mediterranean coastline, government-built resort towns are partially complete. Over the past year they have attracted 600,000 visitors to accommodations ranging from trailer parks...
Martin Erdmann looks like anything but a rebel lawyer. His hair is close-cut, his collar white and button-down, his tie narrow, his suit oldfashioned. Handling documents with nicotine-stained fingers and chain-smoking Lucky Strikes, Erdmann, 57, could pass for a run-of-the-mill judicial factotum behind his small, cluttered desk in Manhattan's Criminal Courts Building. Actually, Erdmann is an independently wealthy bachelor who has devoted his career to New York City's Legal Aid Society. He directly supervised 50 lawyers and did trial work before a recent switch to administrative duties. After being...
...does cast doubts over the island's future. Can Taiwan maintain its prosperity if international business loses confidence in it, or if the Chinese Communists really apply pressure? Last week the Taiwan government announced three new multimillion-dollar investments from abroad -an American fiber plant, an Austrian steel mill and a Hong Kong housing project-but overall foreign investments have already dropped from a record $139 million last year to an estimated $100 million for this year...