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...Manhattan. Alexander accepted a partnership in the faltering house of Morgan in 1939, and shook up the stodgy banking community by aggressively scouring the country for new accounts and training a new generation of bright young employees to follow his lead. By 1959, Morgan was a growing, $915 million concern, and Alexander had the stage set for his greatest coup: merger with $3.13 billion Guaranty Trust...
...familiar razor-blade slogan, and few were sharper than Spang, who in 1939 sponsored World Series broadcasts, followed with the Kentucky Derby, football, boxing and the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports radio and TV shows-all of which helped Gillette become pre-eminent in the field, with earnings of $96 million by the time Spang retired...
...York City ratings, the NBC channel pulled a record 84% of the audience and the network projected a nationwide total of 35 million viewers...
Company spokesmen contended that Kemper had no choice. To reduce its own risks, the company had passed on 75% of the $576 million policy to a pool of 15 other insurance firms. Because of growing vandalism in U.S. schools, which last year suffered $200 million in equipment damage, the pool decided against renewing the policy, even though Indianapolis itself has had little vandalism...
...Europeans had made the victory possible by agreeing not to buy South African gold in the first place, the U.S. could hardly refuse their request to ease the boycott. For its part, South Africa was ready to sue for peace. Its 1969 trade deficit reached an estimated $700 million by October, largely because of imports of machinery needed to modernize its economy. Unless the South African government could sell more gold at a good price, it would have to either 1) pursue risky policies of austerity and deflation during an election year, or 2) restrict imports of machinery and compensate...