Business Briefs Highlight Community Finance and Careers
Thomas A. Ramey named product manager for National Oats Co. popcorn products. Arbitration conference for management personnel set in Iowa City November 9 and 10. Cedar Rapids groups schedule meetings on estate planning, SCORE, and accounting topics. Dividends announced by Hawkeye Bancorporation W.R. Grace & Co. Vernon Co. of Newton. Notable deaths, retiree honors, and corporate actions also listed. Census education survey to sample Cedar Rapids households. J Peter Grace to receive Morality in Media award in New York. Local hospital financial awards and industry events noted. Ford top sales honors for Midwest Davenport district. Thermogas executives return from London trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Hawkeye _Bancorporation
W.R. Grace & Co
Grace
International Chemical Company
Cryovac
Polyfibron
Vernon Co
Newton
W.F. Vernon Jr
University of Iowa
Iowa
FMC Corp
Cable Crane and Excavator Division
FMC
Ralph Elson
Martin Marietta Corp
United States Filter Corp
J. Peter Grace
Morality In Media
New York City
Robert F. Blaser
Mercy Hospital
Robert H. Reeves
Iowa Hospital Financial Management Association
William G. Follmer
Midwest
Davenport
Dan Novak
Oakland Road
Thermogas Co
Palo
Stocks drift on inflation worries and holiday thin trade
Wall Street extended gains on earnings and higher dividends but weak volume during Columbus Day and Yom Kippur kept trend from firming. Dow rose 17.07 for the week as blue chips such as Eastman Kodak and IBM led advances while Amex saw muted activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
UPI
Wall Street
Eastman Kodak
Dow
du Pont
CBS
Caterpillar Tractor
NYSE
U.S
Citicorp
Firestone Tire & Rubber
Firestone
Sears, Roebuck
American Telephone & Telegraph
MCI Communications Corp
At&t
Boeing
Air Europe
IBM
Hilton Hotels
NCR
Procter & Gamble
Resorts International A
Amex
Resorts
New Jersey
Atlantic City
McCulloch Oil
Tenneco
Dome Petroleum
Dome
Beaufort Sea
Purchasers Meet Near Eastern Iowa Association
The Eastern Iowa Purchasing Management Association will hold its monthly meeting Thursday at Indian Creek Country Club. Social hour at 5 45 p m and dinner at 6 45 p m. Guest speaker Elizabeth A Bosong of U S Steel Corp in Pittsburgh will forecast economic conditions based on steel demand studies in Brussels and Geneva. Bosong belongs to multiple economics panels and industry groups in the U S and Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastern Iowa Purchasing Management Association
Indian Creek Country Club
Elizabeth A. Bossong
Bossong
U.S. Steel Corp
Pittsburgh
Brussels
International Iron and Steel Institute
Geneva
U.S. Economic Commission For Europe
Editor Harry Myers to speak at Cedar Rapids dinner
Harry Myers of Des Moines publisher of Apartment Life magazine will address the Advertising Federation of Cedar Rapids at the Sheraton Inn on October 26. He will outline trends and growth in consumer magazines and discuss Apartment Life, a Meredith Corp. monthly. An audio-visual show will accompany the talk, with social hour at 5:30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Myers
Des Moines
Apartment Life Magazine
Advertising Federation of
Cedar Rapids
Sheraton Inn
Apartment Life
Meredith Corp
Mr. Myers
Exporter Corro to Speak on Greece Prospects
Corro Corro a Commerce Department official from Washington D C will address business prospects in Greece at the International Trade Bureau meeting Tuesday night at the Ramada Inn. A 6 p m social hour will be followed by dinner. She specializes in Greece Turkey and Cyprus and has long served in government with focus on southern Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Don Mackay
Merchants National Bank
International Trade Bureau
Gary Ellis
U.S
Kirkwood Community College
Richard Petska
Ann Corro
Department of Commerce
Washington, D.C
Greece
Ramada Inn
Corro
Commerce Department
Turkey
Cyprus
Agency For International Development
Bell Labs unveils faster semiconductors via layered crystal
Murray Hill New Jersey Bell Laboratories reports a new method to speed electron flow in semiconductors by laminating 100 ultra thin alternating layers of gallium arsenide and aluminum gallium arsenide. Silicon impurities are added only to the aluminum gallium arsenide layers to boost conductivity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murray Hill
N.J
UPI
Bell Laboratories
Raymond Dingle
Horst Stormer
Arthur Gossard
William Wiegmann
Bell Labs
Also Mentioned on This Page
Thomas A. Ramey
National Oats Co. Inc
Iowa City
Industrial Relations Institute
College of Business Administration
Richard B. Altorfer
Michael van Meter
Securities Corp
Sheraton
Hayward Campbell
Lilly Research Laboratories
Ely Lilly and Co
Indianapolis
Campbell
Upper Midwest
Boyne
Log Homes
Cedar Log & Timber Homes, Inc
N.W
Elk River
Minnesota
Erb’s Office
Clr
Standard & Poor
American Iron and Steel
National Association of Business Economists
Economic Club of Pittsburgh
Forecasters Club of
Elizabeth Bossong
Federation To
Nikita Khrushchev
Kremlin
Alexei Kosygin
Leonid Brezhnev
John Leefers
John
REL
Brenton Bank and Trust Company
Jeannette Bryant
Lam
Cedar RapiDs, Iowa
Brenton
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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