Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among older viewers the reaction is often uneasiness. Says West Berliner Eva Becker, 76: "That was how Hitler was. He was black magic, and intoxicated people. We thought of him only as a dynamic leader who got the nation on its feet again and solved the awful unemployment problem." Fest aims to correct the ignorance that one generation has forced upon its successor, so that a second Hitler cannot rise to power-and for most viewers, he succeeds. Says he: "If you want to make a society a little more secure against someone like Hitler, then you must give people...
Shares of some of the nation's biggest, best-known and most successful companies have done far worse than the averages indicate. The Singer Co. hit a price peak of over $93 a share in 1972; it is now down to around $24. DuPont stock, at about 113, is selling for less than half its price of 261 in 1965. Among glamour issues, Polaroid has nosedived from a high of 149 in 1972 to around 30 now. Most startling of all: General Motors shares peaked out at almost 114 in 1965 and are now down to around 65-even...
Though it may touch their lives in several ways, most Americans had never heard of correspondent banking until the troubles of Budget Boss Bert Lance hit the headlines. One suspicion that was raised about Lance was that he used his position as head of the relatively small National Bank of Georgia to get personal loans from bigger banks with which the NBG had correspondent relationships. Although Comptroller of the Currency John Heimann last week found that Lance had done nothing to warrant criminal prosecution, he added that the whole affair "raises unresolved questions about what constitutes acceptable banking practice...
...producer; PepsiCo has bid $315 million in stock for Pizza Hut, a chain of franchised fast-food stores; and Anderson, Clayton & Co., a major food processor, initially offered $323 million, before later reducing its bid, to buy control of Gerber Products, maker of two-thirds of the nation's baby food...
Blue Cross officials point out that much of the cost-savings plan has been in operation for some time in Michigan, which has the nation's second largest Blue Cross plan. As a result, they say, Blue Cross-Blue Shield froze Michigan doctors' fees, and increases in hospital costs were held to about 12% a year, a bit below the national average...