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There is also a growing shortage of drivers. In Los Angeles, the 900-cab Yellow fleet has a 60% annual turnover of drivers. The two biggest cab companies in Memphis man only 200 of their 300 taxis. Philadelphia's Yellow Cab Co. pays employees a $25 bounty for recruiting new drivers who stay on the job at least 90 days. So serious is the shortage that companies which employed 75% full-time drivers to 25% part-timers ten years ago, find the proportions rapidly reversing. Nowadays the man up front is quite possibly a moonlighting actor, minister, artist, teacher...
...charging from ninth in a field of twelve to score by a length, at California's Santa Anita Park. The prerace favorite (at 3-5) was Ogden Phipps's four-year-old Buckpasser, Horse of the Year in 1966, winner of eleven straight stakes, and fourth biggest money winner ($1,271,224) in thoroughbred history. Buckpasser was scratched when he was found to have a quarter crack in one hoof similar to a split toenail in a human. The same kind of injury kept Buckpasser out of last year's Kentucky Derby; this time, he is expected...
...tight-money thaw began as the Bank of England cut its lending rate from the crisis level of 7% to 61%, and sent bank messengers sprinting about London's City to spread the news. Within hours, Chase Manhattan Bank, New York City's largest and the second biggest in the U.S., lowered its prime rate -the minimum interest charged for loans to the biggest customers-from 6% to 51%. Explained President David Rockefeller: "While loan demand is still strong, it is less than it was a year ago." Though the British action had been widely anticipated, Chase Manhattan...
...once slow-moving 2400 copier, earnings outraced increasing costs. Though the year-long gain was nothing like 1965's 47% leap, Wilson seemed almost embarrassed. Some time in the future, he warned, "our percentage rate of growth must, of course, diminish." - Kennecott Copper, one of the three biggest U.S. copper producers, turned a first-half slump resulting from strikes in Chile into a booming year with profits up 22%, to $125 million. Thanks to heavy Pentagon orders and higher prices abroad, Kennecott is well polished for its upcoming $466 million merger with another profitmaker, St. Louis' Peabody Coal...
...Beam Distilling Co. for some $110 million. Two weeks ago, it agreed to buy 52.66% control of Buckingham Corp., which distributes Cutty Sark Scotch in this country, from Schenley for some $50 million. Last week Walker announced plans to buy prosperous Royal Crown Cola Co. in American's biggest deal...