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- <text id=91TT1087>
- <title>
- May 20, 1991: Business Notes:Finance
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- May 20, 1991 Five Who Could Be Vice President
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 47
- Business Notes
- FINANCE
- Heyman's Heyday
- </hdr><body>
- <p> It's moments like this that put the high in high finance. Last
- week GAF announced that it was offering up to 20 million shares
- in its major subsidiary, International Specialty Products. The
- deal is as profitable as anything ever concocted in the Wayne,
- N.J., chemical maker's laboratories--par ticularly for
- chairman Samuel Heyman. The stock he would control could now be
- worth at least a wallet-fattening $900 million--more than 20
- times what he paid to take GAF private in 1989.
- </p>
- <p> Thus begins the latest chapter in the tangled history of
- GAF. Seized by the U.S. government in 1942 for its links to
- Nazi Germany's I.G. Farben, infamous inventor of the poison gas
- used in Hitler's concentration camps, the company was owned by
- the feds for the next two decades. During the early 1980s, GAF
- fought a bitter two-year battle in boardrooms, courtrooms and
- newspaper ads against Heyman's ultimately victorious takeover
- effort. Since then, in the words of one analyst, "Heyman made
- a lot of money, and he made a lot of people a lot of money."
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- </body></article>
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