Word: transamerica
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...onto the land. Local authorities were supposed to start enforcing the decision, so the mayor of San Jose declared a temporary freeze on all new building permits in his city. Los Angeles warned all builders that they could proceed only at their own risk. Big home-building companies like Transamerica and the Larwin Group Inc. postponed major projects, which raised some questions about the economic impact of the environmental-impact decision. Said Lieutenant Governor Ed Reinecke: "Hundreds of millions of dollars of construction are being stopped...
...biggest loser will be First Western, a bank that was originally spun off from A.P. Giannini's Transamerica Corp., and has been owned at various times by two Texas tycoons, Troy Post and James Ling. Its current owner is World Airways, which has made millions in the past decade, largely by hauling troops and equipment to Viet...
...basic changes in accepted American channels of production are obvious: the failure of the film studios even as managerial or financial systems made the option of sale to large conglomerates irresistible. United Artists went to Transamerica, Warner-Seven Arts to Kinney Services, "Nixon-Paramount" to Gulf and Western...
...gave an elder-statesmanly address on the advantages of flying his line. Next, Wells. Rich turned out a print and television campaign for American Motors Corp. that focused on Chairman Roy Chapin Jr. stressing the moderate prices of AMC models lined up behind him. Soon other chief executives, including TransAmerica's John Beckett. TRW's Horace Armor Shepard and A-T-O Inc.'s Harry Figgie Jr., turned up in their companies' print ads. Not to be outdone, J. Walter Thompson has just produced a Pan American World Airways ad with an oversize photo of President...
...five of the seven major film companies were in the red and, together, lost more than $100 million. Inevitably, conglomerate wheeler-dealers and proxy challengers have moved in, trying to cash in on such assets as film libraries and real estate. Gulf & Western Industries took over Paramount; Transamerica Corp. and Kinney National Service bought out United Artists and Warner Brothers...