The Missing Millions.
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| Title: | The Missing Millions. |
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| Source: | TIME Magazine. 9/14/1970, Vol. 96 Issue 11, p85-86. 2p. |
| Subjects: | Pergamon Press (Company), Maxwell, Robert, Executives, Leasco Data Processing Equipment Corp., N.M. Rothschild & Sons Ltd., Great Britain. Board of Trade, Investors, Steinberg, Saul P. (Saul Phillip), 1939-2012 |
| Geographic Terms: | United Kingdom |
| Abstract: | The article focuses on the issue of a 60 million dollar bid for control of Pergamon Press founded by Captain Robert Maxwell. On the advice of merchant banker N.M. Rothschild & Sons Ltd., Saul Steinberg, chairman of Manhattan's Leasco Data Processing Equipment Corp. offered the bid. Steinberg pressed for more financial information, which resulted in a conflict. The resulting issue has become one of the longest in the British business history. Great Britain's overseer of commercial practices, the Board of Trade is investigating the controversy. |
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| Abstract: | The article focuses on the issue of a 60 million dollar bid for control of Pergamon Press founded by Captain Robert Maxwell. On the advice of merchant banker N.M. Rothschild & Sons Ltd., Saul Steinberg, chairman of Manhattan's Leasco Data Processing Equipment Corp. offered the bid. Steinberg pressed for more financial information, which resulted in a conflict. The resulting issue has become one of the longest in the British business history. Great Britain's overseer of commercial practices, the Board of Trade is investigating the controversy. |
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| ISSN: | 0040781X |
