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Other companies in the field have long been tempted to challenge IBM in the courts, but they have lacked the resources. They also feared that IBM-which controls many of the industry's patents, and licenses its competitors to use them-might not take too kindly to any outfit that brought it to court. IBM's gentlemanly salesmen, some of whom make $40,000 a year or more, can indeed be rugged competitors. Even so, the company's top management is known to take a somewhat protective attitude toward competition. IBM makes such profits (last year...
Small Catch, Slim Prices. Jahre made his choice on economic grounds. To outfit and dispatch the factory ship and catcher boats that make up a whaling expedition costs about $3,000,000 a season. In a good year, the catch of whales can return many times that amount in meat and oil. But despite the efforts of an international whaling commission, whalers have so depleted the Antarctic that catches today are uneconomically small. Ten years ago, factory ships sent to sea by Norwegian owners processed 905,000 barrels of oil from 31,000 whales in one season. Last year...
...This year, the entire Harvard backfield is packed with power," Cozza continues. "They are a very versatile outfit and we expect to see a lot of razzle-dazzle...
...efforts to set up a reliable air service in Southeast Asia, started CAS in 1965 by taking over a small U.S.-owned, Laotian-based "air-taxi" service. Its Laotian business was (and through CAS, still is) run in close cooperation with Air America, the less than secret CIA-sponsored outfit...
...Census, which fans out across the land every ten years to poll every living American, may well be the biggest official collector of statistics in the world. But a family-owned firm, R. L. Polk & Co. of Detroit, probably stands as the No. 1 private data gathering outfit. It regularly touches the lives of some 100 million Americans-even if only a small fraction of them know the company by name...