Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Telegraph Co. (1964 sales: $1.5 billion) agreed to acquire ABC in a move that, if it goes through as expected, will produce a new electronics-entertainment colossus. The combination would outrank Radio Corp. of America (1964 sales: $1.8 billion) and its NBC subsidiary, leave CBS as the only major network without a big corporate shelter...
More than 3,000 U.S. companies now do business in Europe, and their number is steadily increasing. So are their trucking needs, which up to now have been served only by European firms. Last week a U.S. firm took a logical step: it established the first American-owned trucking network in Europe...
...decision once made, no expense was spared, and no community square is done with" more style. Thousands of white, orange and blue lights are laced across the bare branches of the park's old elms and spruce trees set up for the occasion. From a distance, the entire network looks like an illuminated spider web. During the day, visitors are treated to a Nativity scene that features 75 identical white sheep with one black sheep at the head of the flock. Cost of the Common's display-known to cynical Bostonians as "Christorama"-is a relatively small...
...Board did agree, however, to let Harvard students participate in the debate if it was made clear that they were representing the United States and not Harvard. The Board also asked CBS to hold the debate in one of the network's New York studios instead of the Loeb Drama Center as originally planned. CBS agreed
Bluhdorn then decided on a strategically wise maneuver. He used his profits to buy into a more secure and promising business: auto replacement parts. In a Balkanized industry that has thousands of small suppliers, he figured that the best goal was to knit together a nationwide network of manufacturing plants, warehouses and distributors. First he bought and merged a small-parts manufacturer and a parts distributor, then gradually parlayed profits and loans to add more companies...