Word: owners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oscar Hammerstein II. Heavyweight Firpo, who battled Jack Dempsey in one of boxing's most thrilling evenings in the same year (1923) that Lyricist Hammerstein. with Wildflower, gave Broadway his first real hit, amassed his fortune not as the "Wild Bull of the Pampas" but as the owner of six ranches on it. But to whom did Bachelor Firpo leave the bulk of his estimated $4,000,000 estate? To his longtime great and good friend. Miss Blanca Picard-a bequest his relatives are now contesting in Buenos Aires. The argument over Hammerstein's reported $10 million...
...product through research and development-or you can go out and buy it. Research and development might take three or four years. A merger can do it overnight." There are also personal reasons for mergers. Example: Chicago's Consolidated Foods recently bought out a family firm whose owner sold it so that he could finally have his brother-in-law fired...
...sagging auto sales, Stude-baker-Packard has given a new look to its 1961 line. The 1961 Lark will have a lower hood line, and the horsepower of its standard six-cylinder engine will be hiked from 90 to 112 (lack of power in the sixes was a major owner complaint). The company has also added the Lark Cruiser to the line. Designed to compete with the new luxury compacts, it has a iSo-h.p. V-8 engine, is 4 in. longer than the standard Lark, has a plush interior and dual headlights...
...nation. Its solid rows of pastel blue machines bear the stamp "0-M Spinning Machine, Osaka, Japan." Massapoag is the first mill in the U.S. to be completely fitted with Japanese-made spinning equipment. Standing beside his Japanese machines. Textile Veteran David Hunter ("Buck") Mauney, mill superintendent and principal owner with his brother Bill, says: alt's beautiful stuff. We're getting better quality yarn, and we're saving labor...
...book commences, he and she are fanning a white flame of rage. They alternately argue bitterly and refuse to recognize each other's existence. The issue is the execution of a union leader named Krasnitz, who shot a plant owner when the man tried to cross a picket line. The facts make any judgment questionable, but to John, of course, Krasnitz is simply a murderer, and to Herta he is a martyr of the class war. As stubborn husband and angry wife sit before the television set waiting for Krasnitz to walk his last mile, the author examines...