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There are enough young Coorses to ensure a steady succession, but Bill Coors is not optimistic about the future for many U.S. brewers. Though Americans last year drank 20.3 gal. of beer per capita, up from 15.1 gal. in 1960, rising distribution costs and periodic price cutting by the big national brewers have forced some 660 breweries out of business since 1934, leaving a total of only 60. "Our long-term strategy is to survive," says Bill Coors. "By 1990 there will be only three major companies left, and we intend to be one of them...
...Public Health, released a summary report, written at the request of the Departments of Correction of the New England states, in November. He recommended that the federal government establish a federal "special offenders" prison to which Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont would send their "special offenders" for a per capita charge with possible expansion to include one or more of the states of southern New England...
With a per capita annual income estimated at $125, Nigeria needs all the oil and gas revenues it can get. But Gowon has no intention of rushing the oil bonanza. To husband reserves, he is limiting production increases to the 1% per month maximum he decided was prudent long before the energy crunch. Moreover, the oil revenues give Gowon a strong hand in keeping the twelve states in line. By doling out profits to all, he keeps a firm grip on the purse strings and the pattern of economic growth...
Whole communities are utterly dependent on the auto. Wall, S. Dak., a town of 800, boasts four ultramodern motels, three new gas stations, a bevy of postcard stands, a famous drugstore that does more than $1,000,000 worth of business annually and the highest per capita ownership of backyard swimming pools in the state?all because it happens to be handy to the interstate highway that vacationers travel to the Badlands, the Black Hills and Mount Rushmore. Now a local construction firm has postponed building a $300,000, 46-unit motel, and Herb Pantke, 63-year-old attendant...
VENEZUELA, which already boasts the highest per capita income in South America, is becoming even wealthier because of soaring oil prices. Petroleum production has been held to about 3,500,000 bbl. a day for several years. But because of increases in government taxes and royalties levied against foreign firms drilling in the country, Venezuela's oil revenues have leaped from $1.9 billion in 1972 to nearly $3 billion this year. Since January alone, the price of the country's oil has doubled...