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...tennis racquet with adjustable tension that permits cannonball serves and puffball returns was unable to find anyone to underwrite his scheme. One of the top promoters behind Great Plains Mineral Byproducts Inc., which claimed to have a process for extracting gold, silver and platinum from the residue of burnt coal, turned out to have a record of three fraud convictions...
...country would seem to present a better case for nuclear power than Sweden. It has no petroleum, and so little coal that virtually none has been mined in 50 years. Its oil bill of $3.1 billion last year made it the world's largest per capita importer. On the other hand, the country has Western Europe's largest uranium deposit, the unmined 300,000-ton Ranstad lode in southern Sweden, which some regard as their future energy ace in the hole...
...last year to continue the plutonium breeder program. He has voted against consumer interests in oil price controls, the Consumer Protection Agency and the Consumer Cooperative Bank. Labor he has opposed by voting to cut back the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and to deny black lung benefits to coal miners, food stamps to the families of strikers and extension of the minimum wage law to nearly a million retail and service employees. Labor also hasn't profitted from his votes against common-situs picketing and labor law reform...
...wage-price also undermines the role of price as a signal of change. Growing industries such as coal or computers or home insulation would soon be short of new labor because the freeze would prevent them from raising wages to attract workers from declining or stagnant industries. Oil-using industries, facing rising prices abroad, would have to pay more for oil. Are they to go broke? Or again, suppose there is a poor world harvest, so that at current prices there is an excess demand for grain. How is this grain to be allocated if not by price? Another administrative...
...that will take years to prove and develop. So will solar power, though Bradshaw's firm is spending millions experimenting with it, and "our company will play any wild card in solar. But when we think of alternatives to oil in the 1980s, we are simply stuck with coal and nuclear...