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Texas City, Texas, April 16,1947. During the night of April 15, a fire broke out on the Grand Camp, a freighter anchored in the harbor of this port town on Galveston Bay. The Grand Camp carried 1,400 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer. At 8 the next morning, the Grand Camp exploded in a blast that rattled windows 150 miles away. Flames leaped 700 ft. to a nearby Monsanto plant that produced styrene, a combustible ingredient of synthetic rubber. Minutes later the Monsanto plant exploded, setting off fires throughout the city. On April 17 the freighter High Flyer, also...
...measures. But such a move would be disastrous--skyrocketing taxes and other employment restrictions would force high-tech businesses to leave the area. With the competition between the East and the Southwest to attract profitable industry, the last thing we should do is to make Massachusetts less profitable. The Bay State lost much of its industry in the last decade to high taxes, but Governor Dukakis has worked hard to keep the remaining businesses and to attract new high-tech industry by an intricate system of tax incentives and gubernatorial clout. Comparable worth legislation would severely weaken his program...
...Michael S. Dukakis joined local, state and federal officials in ribbon-cutting ceremonies for the opening of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's (MBTA) new Davis and Porter Square subway stations...
Indeed, earlier this month Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis made a trip to Hollywood and gave a party at a posh Beverly Hills bistro to entice film makers to come to the Bay State. In most places the commissions will get all the necessary permits, persuade hotels to offer discounts, scout out locations and even provide someone to take the director's spouse shopping. The Illinois office has a geography expert on staff who can pinpoint the location a script requires and requisition a state helicopter to show it to the director...
...Green Bay 27, Tampa Bay...