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Even as millions of Swift & Co. "Butterball" turkeys were being carved last week, the Chicago-based meat-packing colossus announced that it had little to be thankful for this year. In fiscal 1968, which ended in October, sales dropped 5% to $2.8 billion, and Swift suffered a $42 million overall loss...
...reopened the day after teachers voted to approve the settlement, but the fragile nature of the truce was illustrated when eight union teachers were prevented from entering an Ocean Hill-Brownsville school. Shanker threatened to call the teachers out on a fourth strike if they were not admitted quickly. Swift action by Trustee Johnson averted more trouble, and the schools went back into full session...
Drake's adventure involved a week of swift, secret transatlantic negotiations with the "Lions" and "Tigers"-code names for Atlantic Richfield and Sinclair. If everything works out, British Petroleum will buy an Atlantic Richfield refinery in Texas, a Sinclair refinery in Pennsylvania, and a string of 5,600 Sinclair gas stations in eleven Eastern states and the District of Columbia. The deal hangs on Justice Department approval of a pending merger of Sinclair and Atlantic Richfield, which now may well pick up speed. One Justice hang-up has been that the merger would lessen competition in the East, where...
Agnew got swift support from other sources. Maryland's Treasurer John Luetkemeyer, a Democrat, called the editorial "inaccurate, misleading and wrong in its facts." The Baltimore Sun, the Washington Star and the pro-Humphrey Washington Post, which are expert in Maryland politics, also came to Agnew's defense...
...tankers, and wisely so. In the mid-1950s, when Onassis began building supertankers, which later grew to 250,000 tons, he was told that they would never pay because they could not negotiate the Suez Canal. When Nasser closed the canal in 1956, Onassis made more millions with his swift hauls around the Cape...