2014 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“Companies such as ITT, Litton Industries, Gulf & Western, and LTV were lionized, and their CEOs became celebrities. (These once-famous conglomerates are now long gone.”
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2014 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“Companies such as ITT, Litton Industries, Gulf & Western, and LTV were lionized, and their CEOs became celebrities. (These once-famous conglomerates are now long gone.”
2014 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“LTV. I'll summarize here, but those who enjoy a good financial story should read the piece about Jimmy Ling that ran in the October 1982 issue of D Magazine.”
Morning Session - 2011 Meeting
“take the group, they were primarily thinking about how Jimmy Ling at the Ling time of LTV, and they were primarily thinking about how they could pump the stock up”
1994 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“The top three companies in return on equity were Insilco, LTV and Gaylord Container, each of which emerged from bankruptcy in 1993”
1987 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“just before they went bankrupt, LTV and Baldwin-United published yearend audits showing their book values”