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...shoppers-in the foreseeable future. Simultaneously, farm output will rise because the Government, in a historic and long-overdue policy shift, will no longer pay farmers to hold down production. Butz warns farmers to expect shortages of fertilizers and of propane gas used to dry grains. But barring drought, blight or flood, the men and women on the land can look forward to an even fatter harvest and richer incomes next year...
Though psychology and economics both make for steady growth in land values over the long run, bubbles of pure speculation always burst sooner or later. Investors are already getting a lesson that land prices can go down as well as up. High construction costs and urban blight have undercut property values in some city areas. The land under the Boston Edison Building was worth about $200 per square foot in the 1920s; today it is less than half that, though property values in other parts of town have risen. A speculative orgy of overbuilding in New York City has driven...
...Steiner, several family members expressed their opposition to the report's conclusions. But the family also includes one of the most vocal proponents of the project, Calvin W. Stillman '39. He wrote in a 1966 Black Rock Forest Report that he felt "the plant as planned constitutes no significant blight upon the natural beauty of Storm King and the Hudson River shorelines" and that he saw no reason why it should not be built...
...Hormel & Co., Pillsbury Co., and Investors Diversified Services Inc., one of the world's largest mutual fund conglomerates. The University of Minnesota, whose alumni and faculty have included seven Nobel laureates, ranks among the nation's best. It helped to develop the Salk vaccine, open-heart surgery, blight-resistant wheat. The Mayo Clinic remains America's secular Lourdes. Minneapolis' Tyrone Guthrie Theater displays some of the most distinguished drama west of Broadway. The Minnesota Orchestra under Stanislaw Skrowaczewski is one of the finest in the country. The Twins, the North Stars and the Vikings have brought a state of natural...
Ironically, both Houston's boom and Bordersville's blight are largely the byproducts of the same thing--the oil business...