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...Paul Rand Dixon as chairman. Last week, however, Nixon chose a new consumer assistant, and the reaction was almost entirely favorable. He picked Mrs. Virginia Knauer, 54, director of Pennsylvania's Bureau of Consumer Protection. A Republican stalwart, Mrs. Knauer probably could do without her new $28,000-a-year salary. She and her husband, Attorney Wilhelm Knauer, 75, live in a large 19th century house with two servants-though she does her own shopping...
...issue that finally may unseat the U.M.W.'s leadership is mine safety. Coal miners, who won an 8%-a-year wage and fringe-benefit increase last October, argue that Boyle should have held out for a vigorous safety program on the part of the mine operators...
...possibility of a suit against LTV has been under consideration since the last months of the Johnson Administration. Under its acquisitive founder, James J. Ling, Dallas-based LTV has grown since 1957 from a $4,000,000-a-year contracting company into the nation's 14th largest corporation, with sales last year of $2.8 billion. And its takeover last summer of Pittsburgh's J. & L.-whose sales of $900 million make it the nation's sixth largest steel producer -was the biggest conglomerate merger in history. J. & L. stock was selling for about $50 before the merger...
...poultry breeder, he became president of the International Baby Chick Association, supervised egg production for the NRA during the Depression. At 32, spurning an offer of $18,000 a year from a Chicago food-packing firm, he returned to M.S.U. as his alma mater's $4,500-a-year business manager. He chose wisely. By 1941, he had married the president's daughter and succeeded his father-in-law in the front office...
...great rises of the past two years have fueled inflation, which the board is now trying earnestly to stop. Since December, the money supply has not grown at all, and bankers cannot meet the increasing demand for loans. Martin's foes were jubilant when the $42,500-a-year chairman recently confessed to a three-year "heritage of errors" in economic policymaking by the board, Congress and the Administration...