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...Chalmers Manufacturing Co., one of the nation's leading manufacturers of electrical, construction and farm machinery. Allis-Chalmers has been the subject of takeover rumors-and heavy trading of its stock-ever since James J. Ling, the acquisitive chairman of Dallas' Ling-TemcoVought, made a pair of tender offers that Allis-Chalmers' board turned down cold last summer...
Time consciousness also forced the University to break the traditional "lump sum tender" convention in which the architect first does all the designing and makes the final blueprints upon which construction contractors later make kids. The lowest bidder is then usually chosen. Instead, University officials commissioned the architect and the contractor simultaneously...
...many a person wary of thieves, traveler's checks and credit cards are better than cash. Thieves agree. Precisely because the cards and checks are not legal tender, a smart crook knows that he is usually safer stealing or forging them than he is stealing or forging the real thing. In many states, lifting a credit card amounts to nothing more than lifting a penny's worth of plastic: serious crime may occur only when the issuing company is actually defrauded. The situation is much the same with traveler's checks. As a result, a man found...
...shock waves from the earthquake also caused seiches (water oscillations) in rivers, lakes and protected harbors along the U.S. Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida. At New Orleans, a drawbridge tender felt the span shake beneath his feet, and a sudden rise of from 1½ to 5 ft. in the level of the Mississippi caused docked vessels to break loose from their moorings. In Atlantic City, N.J., (more than 4,000 miles from the quake), the thorough scientists report, water sloshed over the top of a hotel swimming pool...
...slice of the bank, but the young partners decided that nothing could be quite so satisfying as complete control. They bettered Atlas' offer by fifty cents a share, organized a public relations campaign that stressed the advantages of hometown ownership. Within three days, after tender offers were counted, Parsons was Detroit's fourth largest banker...