Word: ling
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...ousted by his board. Keith Barish, 26, a financial whiz who had made Nassau's Gramco 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...
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Making Waves in Acapulco. Troy V. Post, the Dallas insurance millionaire and longtime patron of Ling's, also resigned as vice chairman and chairman of the executive committee in order to devote more time to his investments. Besides his LTV holdings. Post is worried about an Acapulco resort project, which Cornfeld's I.O.S. reportedly backed out of financing...
Robert H. Stewart III, who had pressed for Ling's removal in May and replaced him as chief executive, also quit. Stewart had plainly been an interim choice though it was not anticipated he would step down so soon. His departure was hastened when the board of the First National Bank in Dallas, of which he is chairman, became nervous that his association with troubled LTV could damage the bank. During his short tenure, Stewart managed to repay $35 million of LTV's $110 million short-term debt and renew all of its subsidiaries' lines of bank...
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...