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During their winter months of June, July and August, Brazilian coffeegrowers observe a time-honored ritual: they spread rumors of crop-killing frosts in hopes of pushing up coffee prices on commodity exchanges. Hence there was nothing out of the ordinary about reports of a "White Friday" last month -except...
Remarkable Record. In recent months headlines have been filled with charges of payoffs overseas-and some damaging admissions. United Brands has admitted paying a $1.25 million bribe in Honduras to get a banana export tax reduced, and Gulf Oil conceded making illegal contributions of $4 million to South Korea'...
Many American executives in the U.S. and overseas expressed off-the-record indignation, not at Northrop, but at the Church subcommittee for airing the firm's dealings and embarrassing U.S. companies abroad. But to hear some American businessmen tell it, the United Brands, Gulf and Northrop revelations have barely...
Boardroom Detente. At length Gelsthorpe concluded that to stop the quarreling "it was imperative that this company bring in somebody not in any way involved in the events of the past months." His opponents agreed, and the board united to choose Booth and Detroit Investor Max M. Fisher, one of...
Booth's first task will obviously be to stop the feuding, and it will test the decisiveness that has earned him a reputation for sometimes being abrupt and abrasive. "I could settle something with him in ten or 15 minutes that would take three hours with almost anyone else...