Monday, January 19, 2009

Berkshire's Investments 1980


No. of Shares                                            Cost       Market
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  434,550 (a)  Affiliated Publications, Inc. ......... $  2,821    $ 12,222
  464,317 (a)  Aluminum Company of America ...........   25,577      27,685
  475,217 (b)  Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company .........   12,942      15,894
1,983,812 (b)  General Foods, Inc. ...................   62,507      59,889
7,200,000 (a)  GEICO Corporation .....................   47,138     105,300
2,015,000 (a)  Handy & Harman ........................   21,825      58,435
  711,180 (a)  Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. ..    4,531      22,135
1,211,834 (a)  Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. ......   20,629      27,569
  282,500 (a)  Media General .........................    4,545       8,334
  247,039 (b)  National Detroit Corporation ..........    5,930       6,299
  881,500 (a)  National Student Marketing ............    5,128       5,895
  391,400 (a)  Ogilvy & Mather Int’l. Inc. ...........    3,709       9,981
  370,088 (b)  Pinkerton’s, Inc. .....................   12,144      16,489
  245,700 (b)  R. J. Reynolds Industries .............    8,702      11,228
1,250,525 (b)  SAFECO Corporation ....................   32,062      45,177
  151,104 (b)  The Times Mirror Company ..............    4,447       6,271
1,868,600 (a)  The Washington Post Company ...........   10,628      42,277
  667,124 (b)  E W Woolworth Company .................   13,583      16,511
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                                                       $298,848    $497,591
               All Other Common Stockholdings ........   26,313      32,096
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               Total Common Stocks ................... $325,161    $529,687
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