Decimalisation
The best advice to ease Decimalisation Day bother I have heard is to imagine that on D Day you have travelled on holiday to another country. You are using a new cur- rency and......
Lloyds Of London
Visiting Lloyds on the day of the collapse of Rolls-Royce I heard that their Insurance brokers had received a cheque for £600,000 Insurance premium the day before. Another £1.2m......
Cod Piece
Lord Robens (whose face reminded Ber- nard Levin in his Taper days here that he must buy a cod's head for his cat on the way home, has now been appointed Chair- man of Vickers......
Good News, Bad News
Go-go boss (let's call him Rowland) on the telephone to young side-kick (call him John) running an associate company of his burgeoning conglomerate. 'Hullo, John, how's our......
Marshmallow Maker
J . H. Vavasseur, I suppose, describes itself a s a mini-conglomerate, which. I hate— though what one hates one takes seriously. kuu by a clever fellow called Jeremy Pinck- l......
Weekly Frolic
Although not a wild success financially, last week's three selections all turned in encouraging performances and fast-finish- ing Carbury's Pride seems well worth following next......
Skinflint's City Diary
The collapse of Rolls-Royce, due in part to an unwise commitment to the aa211 project, left in its wake a severe fall in the price of the shares of Alfred Herbert Limited.......
Young And Bold
Mr Young plunged in with bold and imaginative ideas, all cash-consuming. He dropped models, rationalised production and tied up with the American Ingersoll Com- Pany in an......
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