Word: temco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ling-Temco-Vought...
There was also plenty of push and shove lower down on the list. Nine companies appeared for the first time among the industrial corporations with sales of more than a billion dollars: Ling-Temco-Vought, Signal Oil & Gas, Raytheon, Consolidated Foods, Honeywell, Coca-Cola, Getty Oil, TRW and Colgate-Palmolive. Five other corporations-Inland Steel, Grumman Aircraft Engineering, General Tire & Rubber, Jones & Laughlin Steel, and Olin Mathieson Chemical-fell out of that group. In sum, including also the merger of the billion-dollar member Douglas Aircraft into McDonnell Douglas last year, there was a net gain of three...
James J. Ling, 45, chairman of Dallas-based Ling-Temco-Vought Inc., is a military buff who describes the conferences that lead up to his corporate takeovers as "war games." Last week, after a long war game, Ling made a tender offer for a controlling 62% of the stock of Pittsburgh's Jones & Laughlin Steel Co., the nation's fifth largest steelmaker. The offer meant that LTV stood ready to ante up $425 million in one of the largest cash tender offers ever made; at $85 per share, it also meant that Ling, to ensure quick action...
...Bankers Association President Howard Laeri, "may turn out to have more ambition than talent." Such fears were quickly reflected on the stock market. Last week Litton's common stock, which sold for over $120 a share last October, closed at $73.37. Other conglomerate stocks, including Teledyne and Ling-Temco-Vought, also dropped sharply...
...into such nonfood items as chemicals and insurance, plans further diversification. Admittedly curious about rumors of Simon's interest in his company, Reneker claims that he does not plan to let Swift go the way of other meat packers such as Wilson & Co., which was acquired by Ling-Temco-Vought, and John Morrell, which is expected to become the property of AMK Corp. by year's end. Says Reneker: "If you think I'd like that idea for Swift, you are hearing me wrong...