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The wave of takeovers that has so dominated Big Business for the past year continued last week when another major merger bid was announced and yet another accepted after weeks of careful negotiation. The Bendix Corp., a widely diversified auto components and industrial manufacturing corporation, announced that it will seek...
Occidental's action, plus a drop in the Federal Reserve's discount rate from 11% to 10.5% and the prime rate by some leading banks from 15% to 14.5%, provided an upbeat ending to a gloomy week. The financial community had earlier been rocked by the sudden bankruptcy...
At the end of the nerve-racking week, news flashed across Wall Street tickers that Occidental Petroleum of Los Angeles, the twelfth largest U.S. oil company, had bid to acquire Cities Service for an average price of $41.67 per share. Cities Service announced that it would consider the offer at...
The offer was a fittingly dramatic move for Hammer, still an irrepressible empire builder at age 84. With Hammer at the helm, Occidental has grown in 25 years from a small, nearly bankrupt firm to an energy colossus with annual revenues of more than $14 billion. Much of the company...
The spring of Barbarosa's plot is an endless battle between the outlaw and a Mexican family he married into decades ago. There is a blood feud in The Challenge, too, as bloody as it is feudal. Two swords have been in an old Japanese family for six centuries...