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Stock Exchange: NASDAQ SICs: 3731 Ship Building & Repairing; 3441 Fabricated Structural Metal Avondale Industries,…

Founded: 1953 Sales: $129 million (2003) NAIC: 711211 Sports Teams and Clubs The Baltimore Orioles L.P.

Public Company Incorporated: 1930 Employees: 28,000 Sales: $4 billion Stock Exchanges: New York London Paris Frankfurt…

Founded: 1898 Employees: 1,033 Sales: $100.7 million (2000) NAIC: 511110 Newspaper Publishers Based in the Chicago…

Assets: $19.01 billion The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York (MONY) has been successful for most of its history.

Assets: $11.60 billion The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company focuses on providing individual life insurance.

Assets: $6.69 billion The Home Insurance Company is the 23rd-largest property and casualty company in the United States.

Assets: $61.77 billion Known for decades as one of the largest life insurance companies in the nation, The Equitable…

Assets: $11.72 billion Fireman's Fund Insurance Company offers a wide range of property and casualty insurance…

Assets: $72 billion Stock Index: New York In the space of two decades, Security Pacific has grown from a mid-sized…

Assets: $23.31 billion Principal Mutual Life Insurance is the primary member of The Principal Financial Group.

The venerable Southern Pacific railroad operates a core route of 7,500 miles of railway in 14 of the western United…

Stock Index: New York ASARCO Incorporated is a world leader in the production of nonferrous metals, including copper,…

Market Value: $2.737 billion Stock Index: New York Throughout the 20th century, the American Can Company has been…

Amsted Industries Incorporated is comprised of seven companies divided into railroad, construction and building, and…

Assets: $57.94 billion Stock Index: New York London Bankers Trust New York Corporation, a multibillion-dollar bank…

1980s:Culbro sells several of its diverse companies to regain profitability.

Stock Index: New York Pacific Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO) supplies electric and gas service in Nassau and…

The Continental Group has long been a financially stable container company.

Stock Index: New York Midwest Pacific London Frankfurt Until 1986 TRINOVA Corporation was known as Libbey-Owens-Ford, a…

One of the oldest construction companies in the United States, the Mellon-Stuart Company is involved in general…

Stock Index: New York Philadelphia Pennsylvania Power & Light Company (PP & L) provides electricity to more than 2.5…

Miles Laboratories is best known for Alka-Seltzer.

Crown Central Petroleum Corporation is an independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products, including…

Assets: $10.12 billion Stock Index: NASDAQ SAFECO Corporation is one of the largest diversified financial corporations…

KitchenAid manufactures and markets a full line of premium-price home appliances, including microwave and conventional…

Burdines, Inc., a subsidiary of Federated Department Stores, operates more than 50 upscale department stores, providing…

Stock Index: New York Midwest Pacific United Telecommunications, Inc., (United Telecom) provides voice, data, and…

Stock Index: New York Arkla, Inc.

Market Value: $1.549 billion Stock Index: New York McKesson Corporation's journey to the highest ranking position in…

Stock Index: New York Pacific The United States Shoe Corporation not only manufactures, imports and sells 25 of the…

Market Value: $3.377 billion Stock Index: New York It is only in recent years that Sterling Drug, Inc.

Central Soya Company, Inc.

Stock Exchange: New York SICs: 4813 Telephone Communications Except Radiotelephone; 4911 Electric Services; 4923 Gas…

1980s:In-Sink-Erator begins marketing dishwashers.

The world's leading international hotel company and third-largest hotel company in terms of number of rooms, ITT…

Market Value: $131 million Stock Index: NASDAQ The R.P.

American Medical International was the first investor-owned hospital company in the world.

The rapid growth and fall in number of stores of Revco D.S., Inc., once the United States's largest drugstore chain,…

Assets: $58.2 billion Stock Index: New York Pacific Boston Midwest Philadelphia Cincinnati Amsterdam Frankfurt First…

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Commodore International Ltd.

Stock Index: New York Pacific Midwest The history of MAPCO Inc.

Assets: $59.6 billion Stock Index: New York Expanding across the southern United States with lightning speed, NCNB…

Kellwood Company is a leading international private label and brand label manufacturer, marketer, and merchandiser of…

Asstes: $10.40 billion Stock Index: New York Reliance Group Holdings has grown from a small office data-processing…

Stock Index: NASDAQ In 1867 young George H.

Stock Exchange: NASDAQ SICs: 1531 Operating Builders; 1542 Nonresidential Construction Nec; 6531 Real Estate Agents &…

Continental Cablevision is a leader in the cable television industry and is renowned for its enlightened community…

Assets: $19.26 billion Stock Index: NASDAQ Incorporated in 1969, First Executive Corporation (FE) is a holding company…

Farley Northwest Industries is a relatively young company when compared to other corporations in America, but…

Market Value: $4.817 billion Stock Index: New York After years of conducting operations in everything from auto parts…

Stock Index: New York Boston Philadelphia Cincinnati Midwest Pacific Bally Manufacturing Corporation, a leader in the…

Cincom Systems, Inc.

Market Value: $691 million Stock Index: New York Fuqua Industries is a conglomerate with a history of acquiring,…

Stock Index: NASDAQ Cable television began as an antenna reception service for communities television signals didn't…

Arch Mineral Corporation is a private coal company owned in equal parts by Ashland Oil Company and the Hunt family.

Assets: $30.11 billion Stock Exchange: New York SICs: 6712 Bank Holding Companies; 6022 State Commercial Banks; 6021…

Stock Index: New York Philadelphia Consolidated Rail Corporation--best known as Conrail--was formed by the U.S.

Affiliated Publications, Inc., is the owner and operator of The Boston Globe, the principal newspaper of the Boston…

Danaher Corporation, a holding company established in 1984, currently consists of thirteen wholly owned subsidiaries…

Stock Index: New York Boston Philadelphia Midwest Pacific London Tokyo Amsterdam Zürich Geneva Basel NYNEX Corporation…

Assets: $33 billion Stock Index: New York The Bank of New England is America's first interstate regional bank holding…

Stock Index: New York Midwest Pacific Centerior Energy Corporation is a public utilities holding company operating in…

Stock Index: NASDAQ The Henley Group is a holding company whose operating subsidiaries can--and in most cases…

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