Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After McLernon's statement Governor-elect John A. Volpe formally endorsed the sale. As sole authority over the three MTA trustees, Volpe will have the power to initiate a transaction with the University when he takes office in January, if he so wishes...
They represented 29 manufacturers of electrical equipment-including such big names as General Electric. Westinghouse and Allis-Chalmers-and 48 present or former executives of those companies. All were charged by the Government with criminally conspiring to rig bids and fix prices in the sale of $7 billion worth of heavy electrical equipment over the last seven years...
Shortage Insurance. In its separate consent decree, Gulf agreed to set aside 100,000 bbl. of oil per day for ten years from its production in Kuwait for sale to independent oil companies. Gulf has always sold to independents, and the Government's requirement is really only an insurance policy for the independents should an oil shortage arise...
...mining workers from 17.910 in 1940 to about 2,200 this year, Scranton set out to attract new employers by offering to build them a modern factory to meet their specifications. The city paid for all construction, charged the company only rent. The plan was first financed by the sale of municipal bonds, but the public has chipped in willingly with outright donations to keep the fund going. About 30 community-financed plants have been built at a cost of nearly $20 million, providing jobs for more than 10,000 people. One secret of the plan's success...
When Connecticut Housewife Maggie Rudkin started baking her homemade bread for sale to her neighbors in 1937, she used stone-ground flour and only the best ingredients, rightly thought she ought to! get a fancy price for it. She did. By this year her Pepperidge Farm bread had grown into a $32 million business, and when Campbell Soup wanted to buy it. once again she thought she ought to get a good price. She did. Last week Campbell announced that it would exchange 357,413 shares of its common stock, worth some $28,200,000 for the outstanding stock...