
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 sectors actually work."
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Air Date: 1981-10-02
Bill Brodnax (Taurus Petroleum) drills for gas in the Cajun country of southern Louisiana. Witness how drilling is pl...
Air Date: 1981-10-09
Loy Weston, the American chairman of Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan, presides over 324 stores. Witness the setting up o...
Air Date: 1981-10-16
Examining the future of AT&T as its telephone monopoly ends and a new era of tooth-and-nail competition begins.
Air Date: 1981-10-23
The bizarre preparations for an auction where millionaires bid for race horses. (Tom Gentry Farms)
Air Date: 1981-10-30
Inforex was a $70 million-a-year computer firm that rode the high-tech wave to prosperity in the early 1970s. Founded...
Air Date: 1981-11-06
Entertainment industries, searching for safer products with bigger returns on investments, have joined forces to crea...
Air Date: 1981-11-13
One of the new airlines challenging the giants of the industry in the wake of deregulation, New York Air is followed ...
Air Date: 1981-11-20
Unhappy with the unpredictability of cotton prices, many Mississippi Delta farmers are converting their hardscrabble ...
Air Date: 1981-11-27
Levi-Strauss attempt to market a moderately priced, mass produced men's suit.
Air Date: 1981-12-04
The San Diego subsidiary of Japan's fastest-growing company -- Kyoto Ceramic -- illustrates Japan's management techni...
Air Date: 1981-12-11
Tom Bata, chairman of Bata Shoe, visits his company's manufacturing plants in Chile, Upper Volta, Mauritius, Sri Lank...
Air Date: 1981-12-18
How market leader Boeing stays on top of the world aircraft business.
Air Date: 1981-12-25
John DeLorean, a former executive at General Motors, has used his fortune, reputation, expertise, and connections to ...