Word: ratan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lucknow's Ved Ratan Mohan, 36, for instance, is India's biggest distiller. But in a nation where opposition to drink is strong and prohibition varies locally from state to state, Teetotaler Mohan has balanced his beer, gin, rum and whisky with breakfast foods, apple juice and catchup. Arvind Mafatlal, 43, who as oldest brother became chair man of Mafatlal Gagalbhai after his father's death eleven years ago, is leading it away from textiles and into more profitable chemicals. He has undertaken joint ventures with both Shell and Montecatini, has a $140 million expansion program under...
Buzzing onto the runway of Bombay's Juhu Airport, the single-engined de Havilland Leopard-Moth looked as if it might be powered by rubber bands. But the 1933-vintage monoplane was admirably airworthy. Out of the cockpit popped dapper Jehangir Ratan Dadabhoy Tata, 58, chairman of the country's flag-line Air-India, and India's foremost industrialist. Tata piloted the old flying machine over the 662-mile route from Karachi to Bombay to celebrate the 30th anniversary of India's first airmail flight, which he himself flew in a Puss Moth, the cousin...