Word: annually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Kirwan's annual public-works appropriations bill sailed through the House on a 354-to-25 vote. Not a dollar was put into or subtracted from the legislation as it was reported out by his Subcommittee on Public Works Appropriations. Since "Big Mike" likes to keep all House members happy, every state had at least one slice of bacon. But Kirwan was undisguisedly most elated about his own project. "This is going to be the greatest canal," he bragged, "in the history of mankind...
...billion a year, but they calculate that "about 60% of the lewd paperbacks and magazines circulating today in the U.S. are published by California firms," three-quarters of whose products "fall into the hands of teenagers under 18." In January, for example, Los Angeles Publisher Milton J. Luros (estimated annual sales: $6 million) and eight associates were convicted on 147 counts of violating anti-obscenity laws by deluging Iowa with six smutty paperbacks and 14 nudist magazines. Although 250 obscenity cases are now pending in California, even the state's best bookstores still blatantly display "nudie" magazines, while others...
That is not all of Wolfson's woes. In April, as a result of several shareholder suits, Merritt-Chapman & Scott agreed to slash Chairman Wolfson's annual compensations from last year's $525,-000 to $150,000. The settlement came unstuck when the SEC asked the New York State Supreme Court to adjourn the case temporarily. The Commission's lawyer said that it was completing an investigation that could have consider able bearing on the case. Court hear ings resume this week, and the SEC plans to return with what it calls "ma terial facts" concerning...
...eighth largest chemical manufacturer-which puts it among giants. It is also big in the food-and-drink field. Having already acquired chocolate companies in the U.S. and Holland, Grace so far this year has picked up Nalley's, Inc., a snack-food producer in Tacoma, Wash., with annual sales of about $45 million, and Marela, Ltd., a pickle firm in Britain. Before the end of 1966, Grace hopes to buy out Sea-Pak Corp. of St. Simons Island. Ga., a $25 million-a-year frozen-seafood company...
...part of the 7th Annual Back to Radcliffe Day tomorrow, the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association will present four lectures on the general topic of "Toward Community: Exploring Alternatives...