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...into their systems to meet burgeoning demand. As temperatures dropped, meters at monitoring stations showed a lowering of pipeline pressure, indicating big surges in demand. "The gas was being pulled out faster than we could put it in," said Henry King, an executive of the sprawling Columbia Gas Transmission Corp., a network of seven gas distributors in several mid-Atlantic and Midwestern states. "In some plants we were reaching the peril point...
Board of Directors, U.S. Steel Corp...
Businessmen were reassured by Carter's Cabinet choices. Said a top General Motors Corp. executive: "Whatever decisions he makes, he will at least have the advice of people who know our problems." Moreover, the Midwestern economic outlook is improving. Detroit hopes to sell close to 10 million cars and 3.5 million trucks this year, thus putting to work many of the 39,000 unemployed auto workers. In turn, the steel and tire industries are heading for a good year, and the prosperity will trickle down to the rest of the region's economy. Said Eugene Swearingen, chairman...
...Roman Catholic religious order, the Clerics of St. Viator, agreed in that same year to allow the Metropolitan Housing Development Corp., a nonprofit real estate developer, to build 20 two-story buildings with 190 apartments for low-and moderate-income families on 15 acres of its property. The village board blocked the deal by refusing to rezone the site for multifamily residences. The M.H.D.C. and three blacks eligible to live in the project sued Arlington Heights on the grounds, among others, that the refusal to rezone was unconstitutional racial discrimination...
Typical of the agency's shortcomings, says the subcommittee, is the EPA'S failure to act effectively against leptophos, an insecticide that has recently been implicated in an outbreak of nervous disorders among employees at a plant operated by the Velsicol Chemical Corp. in Bayport, Texas. The company, notes the report, failed to inform the EPA of the illnesses for five months. But the EPA ignored equally compelling evidence that the chemical was dangerous. In 1973 and 1974, while the EPA was evaluating leptophos, it received repeated warnings from scientists that the compound was neurotoxic, or capable...