Half-hour program on the "real-life adventure" of big business. Newsman Eric Sevareid, who served as host, described the series as neither "chamber of commerce boosterism" nor anti-establishment; rather, "an effort to report how various industrial …
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Ep 11981-10-02
Wildcatter
Bill Brodnax (Taurus Petroleum) drills for gas in the Cajun country of southern Louisiana. Witness …
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Ep 21981-10-09
The Colonel Comes to Japan
Loy Weston, the American chairman of Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan, presides over 324 stores. Witness …
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Ep 31981-10-16
Gulliver's New Travels
Examining the future of AT&T as its telephone monopoly ends and a new era of …
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Ep 41981-10-23
Fast Horse in a Bull Market
The bizarre preparations for an auction where millionaires bid for race horses. (Tom Gentry Farms)
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Ep 51981-10-30
Bankrupt
Inforex was a $70 million-a-year computer firm that rode the high-tech wave to prosperity in …
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Ep 61981-11-06
The Making of a Package Deal
Entertainment industries, searching for safer products with bigger returns on investments, have joined forces to …
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Ep 71981-11-13
Dogfight Over New York
One of the new airlines challenging the giants of the industry in the wake of …
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Ep 81981-11-20
Catfish Fever
Unhappy with the unpredictability of cotton prices, many Mississippi Delta farmers are converting their hardscrabble …
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Ep 91981-11-27
Not by Jeans Alone
Levi-Strauss attempt to market a moderately priced, mass produced men's suit.
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Ep 101981-12-04
The Kyocera Experiment
The San Diego subsidiary of Japan's fastest-growing company -- Kyoto Ceramic -- illustrates Japan's management …
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Ep 111981-12-11
One Man's Multinational
Tom Bata, chairman of Bata Shoe, visits his company's manufacturing plants in Chile, Upper Volta, …
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Ep 121981-12-18
The Jet Set: Boeing vs. the World
How market leader Boeing stays on top of the world aircraft business.
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Ep 131981-12-25
Start-Up
John DeLorean, a former executive at General Motors, has used his fortune, reputation, expertise, and …
