Word: bendix
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Gains and Fumbles. In this year's first quarter, earnings set records at Xerox, Avon Products, IBM, Uniroyal, Bendix and Continental Can. Many companies succeeded very well in squeezing more out of sales. Though its revenues dropped 7% compared with last year's first quarter, McDonnell Douglas' earnings climbed 157%, partly because the company got its troubled Douglas commercial-aircraft division under control. At Union Carbide, profits jumped 28% on a sales increase of only 8%, partly because of a drive to cut costs and increase production at existing facilities. Runaway prices for wood products lifted profits...
...have firm roots in the Stuttgart area. IBM-Germany is now Baden-Württemberg's third-largest enterprise, after Daimler-Benz and Bosch. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. owns Standard Elektrik Lorenz electronics company, the state's fifth-largest firm. Litton Industries, Ampex, Perkin-Elmer, Hewlett-Packard, Bendix Corp. and Hughes International are represented through their German subsidiaries...
...Bendix Corp...
...auto annals, there are few switches of allegiance that even come close to equaling Knudsen's. In 1946, Ernest Breech, a former G.M. vice president, left the presidency of Bendix Aviation -then partially controlled by G.M.-to become Ford's executive vice president. And then there was Knudsen's father, William S. ("Big Bill") Knudsen, who switched in the opposite direction, from Ford to G.M.-but that was early in his career...
...Princeton graduate, bosses the sporting goods com pany, oversees a line that includes sweat ers, socks and tennis-racket covers. Son Francois, 34, a Stanford University-trained physicist, is a research and development director at Lacoste's other major company. In 1934, Lacoste teamed with the Bendix Corp. to form Air Equipement, a French company, to make airplane starters. The com pany has since been merged into D.B.A...