Word: ltv
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...business leaders of 1974 have generally been successful. Raymond Hay switched from an executive vice presidency at Xerox to the presidency of LTV. Gerald Meyers rose from vice president to chairman and chief executive of American Motors. Economics Professor Marina Whitman will start next month as chief economist and vice president at General Motors. The biggest losers among the businessmen were Arthur Taylor, eased out of the presidency of CBS, and Richard Kattel, the boy wonder of Atlanta's go-go banking days, who resigned his chairmanship of Citizens and Southern National Bank. The Comptroller of the Currency...
...capacity. Alperovitz even predicts the steel equivalent of a "refinery shortage" in the '80s, in which an artificially reduced number of steel plants will make a killing. The Carter Administration is doing its best to bring this about: Attorney-General Griffin Bell approved Lykes' salvage plan of merging with LTV Corporation, despite the ruling by his own Antitrust Division that the merger was illegal because LTV operates Jones and Laughlin Steel...
...Justice Department was in no mood to be bluffed, even by troubled steelmakers, and talks dragged on and on in a months-long game of high-stakes political poker. Ever since last November, steel conglomerates LTV Corp. and Lykes Corp. have argued fiercely that the only alternative to their planned merger was Lykes' bankruptcy and the layoff of thousands of steelworkers. But antitrust officials objected that even the marriage of two money losers. LTV's Jones & Laughlin and Lykes' Youngstown Sheet and Tube, would reduce steel competition. In the end, it came down to a very close...
...LTV, which also is a major aerospace manufacturer and food processor, is keeping quiet about its postmerger plans, at least until after shareholders of both companies vote in late August or early September to approve the linkup. All LTV has said is that it will not close Youngstown's Indiana Harbor mill, near Chicago, which could feed raw steel to Jones & Laughlin's Hennepin, Ill., processing plant and give the enlarged combine a fully integrated facility in the Middle West. While the two companies are complementary in some ways, they also have redundancies. LTV has promised that...
...part of the Ling empire, the company was known as LTV Electrosystems Inc. After its spin-off four years ago, it needed a new name, but a San Francisco company hired for the purpose could not invent one that pleased Chairman and President John W. Dixon, so Dixon in frustration decided on E-Systems. What does the letter stand for? Says Dixon: "Any word that starts with E and is good...