Word: orly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goodrich's profits have lagged behind those of its prime competitors. Last year the company earned only 3.9% on sales of $1.1 billion, compared with 6% for the industry's most profitable major operator, Firestone. After Northwest's takeover attempt, Keener, who was paid $240,000 last...
That Uncertain Feeling. One way that Goodrich management found to improve performance was to thin out the 18,000 executive, professional and other white-collar personnel by attrition, early retirement and outright firings in Akron. Robert Sausaman, 48, an equipment buyer, recalls that, after 17 years with the company, he...
Executives of Fantus Co. have helped so many companies find sites for new plants or offices that they have built the world's largest industrial location service. Last week they concluded that they have been in the wrong place themselves. They decided to move Fantus' headquarters out of...
New York City, says Fantus President Leonard Yaseen, is just no place to work. Yaseen gives it a low rating for reasons as varied as crime, air pollution, strikes, employees' attitudes toward work and operating costs. He cites high and rising city income and occupancy taxes, as well as...
Secret Meeting. Since the 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...