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Upjohn's Dr. E. Gifford Upjohn conceded that the race of drug companies to keep up causes his firm, in line with others, to spend 28.6% of its budget on 1,000 salesmen (out of 5,700 employees), plus other promotional activity. Research costs: 9%. Despite the high overhead...
PROJECT MERCURY, which will rocket a man into space, will cost $100 million more than the $250 million that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration originally estimated. Increases are for more expensive capsules, boosters, and a bigger range of operations.
As the price of settlement, Continental Can- and rival American Can- will raise prices. But for Old Strategist Clay, that is only withdrawing to a well-prepared position. Continental has made two price cuts, totaling 3%, in the last year, will have to restore only 1½% to meet the...
LUCIUS CLAY does not rest on his fame or his contacts (Continental has little Government business) to earn his $150,000 yearly salary. "Does he run the company?" asks a Continental executive. "I'll say he does. Not just 100% - about 106%." Clay has a photographic memory that enables...
Laboratories. In a corner of Leo's plastics factory in Boston, Mass., David developed a commercially produceable gold-bonded diode can electronic switching device for converting alternating current into direct current) that was better than anything on the market. But even after it had a product, Transitron had to...