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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Washington's eleven-member Interstate Commerce Commission struck the hot-cargo weapon out of Hoffa & Co.'s hands. Ruling on a case in which nine trucking companies operating out of Oklahoma City had obeyed hot-cargo clauses in refusing to handle goods transported by a nonunion Texas trucker, ICC firmly declared that licensed "common carriers" operate under a "statutory obligation to serve the public" without discrimination-and that this "absolute" obligation cannot be set aside by any labor contract...
Last week General Nasution and Premier Djuanda seemed to be intent on proving themselves more responsible than Sukarno. General Nasution issued a flat "hands-off" order to Red-led SOBSI workers who wanted to seize the vast Royal Dutch Shell Co. holdings in Surabaya and Balikpapan. And at week's end Premier Djuanda announced that the fountainhead of the anti-Dutch campaign, Sukarno's Action Committee to Liberate West Irian (West New Guinea), had been dissolved, its functions taken over by the National Council...
...could turn out 12 million cars a year if absolutely necessary," said a steel executive. "But when it produces only 6,000,000 cars, no one complains that it is operating at only 50% capacity." At times, businessmen even gave thanks for the breather. Frank Magee, president of Aluminum Co. of America, noting that aluminum has often been in short supply, said cheerfully: "For the first time in history, we can promise the potential user of aluminum a steady, dependable supply of metal...
...record amounts for expansion. Serving them all. the nation's utilities grew at compound rates, increased their outlays 28% to $6.3 billion, and in the process added 7% to U.S. generating capacity. Among the additions: the first full-scale atomic power plant, which Pennsylvania's Duquesne Light Co. put in operation at Shippingport to serve eventually the needs of 120,000 customers...
...install the first one at a military base next spring. American Gilsonite licked the problem of making gasoline in quantity from rock, built a $14 million plant for commercial production. Science could even give humdrum old materials an exciting new lease on life. For years U.S. Borax & Chemical Co. mined borax for use as a household cleanser. Today Boron is a new wonder element, used in everything from drugs to super-powered rocket fuels...