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...convinced me that there are very few that will ultimately be terminated by dismissal." But in July he ordered the Department of Justice to drop the suit against the Columbia Gas & Electric Corp. (now the Columbia Gas System, Inc.), and last week Barnes announced the expected dismissal (TIME, Aug. 31) of the eight-year-old case of United States v. Cement Institute. This suit could be dropped, he explained, because its objectives have been accomplished: dissolution of the Cement Institute, and abandonment by most of the 89 co-defendant cement companies of the uniform (basing-point) price system to which...
...million fire at General Motors' Livonia transmission plant (TIME, Aug. 24) will cost G.M. 75,000 cars this year, about 2½% of its scheduled 1953 output. Chevrolet cannot make enough Powerglide transmissions to supply Pontiac, and Buick cannot fill all of Cadillac's needs for Dynaflow transmissions. But the fire will not affect G.M.'s 1954 models, which will use transmissions made in rented quarters at Willow...
...GARDINER Symonds' threat to blow up the New England natural gas "truce" unless he won access to the Canadian market (TIME, Aug. 17) got results. In return for sharing New England with Algonquin...
...fathered the pay-as-you-go tax plan adopted by Congress in 1943, is having less success with his Ruml Plan to balance the budget by bookkeeping tricks such as taking public works and commodity inventories out of the current expense budget and treating them as capital assets (TIME, Aug...
Ambush for the Hunter, by F. L. Green. Communist spies, British counterspies and muted heartbreak in a British middle-class marriage, all adding up to rattling good suspense (TIME, Aug...