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...shrimp prices in the U.S. rose 20% to 40% during 1971. Large shrimp that retailed in Manhattan a year ago for $2.50 per Ib. are now $3.25. Jim Mahoney, general manager of Miami's Gorton Shrimp Products, predicts that shrimp may become one of the U.S.'s costliest delicacies. "Shrimp people laughed when lobster went to $4 a pound," he says, "but for shrimp that's not too farfetched...
...planes and missiles. Each year it has received barely conceivable billions from the national treasury, and each year its products seemed to transport Americans higher, faster and farther than ever before. After the U.S. Senate voted last week to shoot down the supersonic transport, which would have been the costliest commercial product in the nation's history, there were widespread new fears about the future of this proud industry. Barring the increasingly slim chance that the SST contractors will be able to continue work with private financing, the Senate vote killed?or at least postponed indefinitely?a machine that...
...recovery operations stretched to 15 months-the longest and costliest in mining history-some of the widows sought an end to the strain of wondering "when the phone will ring to say they've found him." Worried that their husbands' bodies had been incinerated in the intense fires of the explosions, and discouraged by Consolidation Coal Co.'s reports that recovery could stretch over years, they agreed to a plan that would seal off from commercial production the portion of the mine containing the most inaccessible bodies. That area would become a cemetery, and a monument...
WHEN the biggest and costliest strike in more than a decade ended last week, neither side was particularly overjoyed by the outcome. After 58 days of standoff, leaders of the United Auto Workers and General Motors agreed on a new contract that the company says is inflationary. The union's hefty wage gain was less than the auto workers had hoped for, but they got more in fringe benefits than the U.A.W. leadership could have expected. If the strikers ratify the national contract this week, as is likely, and some sticky local issues are settled in the plants...
...costliest senatorial election in the nation's history (estimated outlay: $65 million), one of the most bitterly fought and from all appearances, likely to be the closest since 1954, when Democrats won control by a single vote...