Word: vought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were the only inhabitants of the 120-acre area of thicket and coconut groves 20 miles south of Mexico's swank Acapulco resort on the Pacific. Then in 1968, Dallas multimillionaire Troy V. (for Victor) Post, newly enriched by the sale of his Greatamerica Corp. to Ling-Temco-Vought for $500 million, brought his genius and fortune to bear on the wasteland. Before long he had transformed it into an earthly paradise, a resort complete with a luxury hotel and detached villas, two of the world's best golf courses, an Olympic-size swimming pool, a discotheque...
...have become a nuclear physicist or a chess master. Instead, James Joseph Ling became the quintessential conglomerator. In the roaring '60s he created a company that eventually ran up sales of $3.75 billion a year from products as diverse as jet planes and hamburgers. By 1969, Ling-Temco-Vought of Dallas was the 14th largest industrial enterprise in the U.S. In 1970, with LTV stock crashing and bankers hounding him for huge debts, Ling's own directors booted...
Quesada is now smoking contentedly. He produced figures proving that as of April 26, the common stock of the ten companies (Lockheed Aircraft, General Dynamics, McDonnell Douglas, United Aircraft, North American Rockwell, Litton Industries, Grumman, Ling-Temco-Vought, Boeing and Raytheon) was worth $4,723,814,437. On the same date the common stock of Avon Products was valued at $5,618,240,682. It is comforting to learn that the nation values beauty above bullets. It is also disconcerting to think that American women need all that much help to look pretty. But in fact, by a more traditional...
...Management Ltd. the second-ranking offshore mutual fund complex, was also hit by a wave of fund redemptions that forced him to suspend some operations. Several big-thinking Texans were deflated. James Ling, whose merger magic had expanded a tiny electrical firm into a $3.75 billion conglomerate, Ling-Temco-Vought Inc., was deposed by nervous bankers. Oil Millionaire John Mecom petitioned for bankruptcy...
Sick Subsidiary. The leadership of LTV has passed from financial entrepreneurs to a shirt-sleeved production man. Paul Thayer, 50, was named president, chairman and chief executive. A chain-smoking former chief test pilot for Chance Vought Corp. who came along when that company was acquired by Ling in 1961, Thayer helped design LTV's A-7A attack plane. He became president of LTV Aerospace in 1965. Under Thayer, sales climbed from $195 million to last year's $714 million; more important, profits increased from $3.6 million to $28.7 million. Zealously profit conscious, Thayer recently has been firing...