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...dominate Canada's natural gas industry. In one corner was Clint Murchison, the flamboyant Texas oil tycoon (TIME, May 24, 1954) who bosses an empire of companies with assets of about $400 million. Against him was Francis Murray Patrick McMahon, 53, multimillionaire Canadian who began as a $4-a-day driller and rose to be a leading operator in Western Canada's spectacular oil boom. The big stake in the contest between them: a franchise to build a $350 million pipeline to carry Western gas 2,200 miles to the cities of Eastern Canada and the U.S. Midwest...
...time when the $30,000-a-week headline act made economic sense as a loss leader because it lured customers to gamble was changing. More and more people were going to the hotels to watch the high-priced floor show, eat the $2 steak dinner, enjoy the elegant $8-a-day hotel room, and maybe drop a few token coins in the slot machines (5% profit for the house). Last June most of the hotels were forced to alter a longstanding policy, and charge a $2 minimum for the midnight supper shows that guests could once see by sitting...
...likelihood goes up with the amount smoked: if a light smoker (up to 15 cigarettes daily) has X chance of larynx cancer, a 16-to-34 man has almost double that chance and an over-35-a-day smoker nearly four times that chance. Noninhaling cigar and pipe smokers run about the same risk as 16-to-34 cigarette men (higher, relatively, than their risk of lung cancer...
From the moment he took a $1.50-a-day job as a water boy on a gang building a railroad for Anaconda Copper at Butte, Mont., there was never much doubt how Cornelius Francis Kelley would spend his life. Born in the mining country (his father was a mine superintendent), "Con" Kelley had copper in his blood. He went off to study law at the University of Michigan, started specializing in mine cases back in Butte. In a fledgling industry dominated by Irishmen and racked by legal brawls, Kelley quickly made his mark. He went to work for Anaconda, became...
...maximum fine for antitrust violations of the Sherman Act should be boosted from $5,000 to $10,000, but the present "exorbitant" $5,000-a-day fine for continued violations of a Federal Trade Commission order should be cut to a maximum of $5,000 for each separate violation...