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Other parts of Lockheed's business are in fine shape. The company's total order backlog, largely military, has risen to $4.6 billion, up $1 billion in twelve months. Defense business is consistently profitable; it ranges from cargo aircraft to missiles and electronics-to say nothing of secret projects undertaken at Lockheed's "skunk works," which turned out, among other things, the U2. Negotiations are under way between the Japanese de fense agency and the U.S. Department of Defense for the sale of 44 Orion antisubmarine aircraft, a deal that would bring Lockheed more than $1 billion...
...subject of the uproar is a "cargo preference" bill that would require 9.5% of all oil imported into the U.S. to be carried by U.S.-flag ships by 1982, v. 3.9% now. Most of Carter's advisers-in the Treasury Department, the Council of Economic Advisers, the State Department, the Defense Department, the Office of Management and Budget-are against the bill. They fear it would aggravate inflation by forcing the use of more expensive U.S. ships with highly paid crews: it costs $14,300 a day to run a 90,000-ton U.S. ship...
...June a series of memos on the cargo preference bill, which at that point would have required that 25% to 30% of all imported oil be carried by U.S. ships, reached the President's desk. Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal reviewed the pros and cons: the bill, he said, would create as many as 18,000 jobs at sea and in shipyards and reduce the nation's trade deficit, but in the long run, by raising costs, would reduce both total employment and national production. Domestic Affairs Adviser Stuart Eizenstat noted that not only Blumenthal but CEA Chairman Charles...
...billion Equity Funding scandal of 1973, in which 22 insurance company employees were convicted of inventing some 56,000 fake policies for resale to other insurance companies. Other binary burglars programmed Penn Central computers to divert 277 freight cars to an obscure Illinois railroad siding, where both cargo and cars were plundered. An electronics expert aged 19 gained access to Pacific Telephone & Telegraph terminals and managed to order $1 million worth of supplies over nearly two years...
...gambler's game called tankers. As a result of the slowdown in the growth of petroleum consumption and some reckless overbuilding by shipyards in the early 1970s, the tanker business is in the worst depression in memory. Fully 10% of the world fleet sits idle for lack of cargo...