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...Hunt's sales, Simon has relentlessly expanded the company's horizons over the past decade, raised its sales from $82 million to $400 million. Hunt is now the largest refiner of cottonseed oil in the U.S. (Wesson Oil), the nation's second-biggest matchmaker (Ohio Match), the largest paint manufacturer and distributor in the West (W. P. Fuller), and the' West's second-largest maker of glass containers. It also owns important interests in areas as remote from the tomato as magazine publishing (McCall's) and steel (Wheeling...
...second-largest Soviet explosion did not test a "device" but a full-fledged warhead that yielded some 25 megatons and weighed only 10,000 lbs. It .could be hung on the Beast and sent for a full range of 6,000 miles. By comparison, the biggest U.S. missile yield is less than 10 megatons for Titan...
...Wallasey, a grimy industrial city near Liverpool, Arthur Christiansen got to Fleet Street at 20 as London editor of the Liverpool Evening Express, a brash young man whose hair broke over a "rather high brow in embarrassing, almost girlish waves." At 29, he became editor of the Daily Express, second-largest daily in the Western world (after the London Daily Herald). In jig time, Christiansen had the Express in front, although it was later overtaken by the London Daily Mirror. Before a heart attack forced him into retirement, Express circulation doubled...
McNiff was defending the Harvard College Library against claims by the staff at New York's Public Library that their system had usurped Harvard's time-honored status as second-largest collection in the country...
Earlier this year Shanks learned the hard way the limits on the personal actions of the man who publicly presides over the second-largest U.S. life insurance company (first: Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.). He made a personal deal with Georgia-Pacific Corp., a big Prudential borrower, to buy timber, then let a Georgia-Pacific subsidiary cut enough of it over five years to pay back the money Shanks had borrowed to buy the trees. With tax write-offs, capital gains and depletion allowances on his holdings, Shanks stood to make as much as $485,000 in savings on his income...