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...these men participate in what has become the world's fastest-growing business?the arms trade. The contracts they sign in one day could easily exceed a lifetime of sales made by the "merchants of death" of an earlier era, immortalized in Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw's Undershaft, whose credo was "to give arms to all men who offer an honest price for them, without respect of persons or principles ... to Capitalist and Socialist, to Protestant and Catholic, to burglar and policeman, to black man white man and yellow man, to all sorts and conditions, all nationalities, faiths...
Steady Rise. By far the hardest-hit consumers are the tens of thousands who are stuck with the all-electric homes that the utilities promoted so heavily until the early 1970s. Many of these residents complain that their electricity bills now exceed their mortgage payments. For example, in Union Bridge, Md., Dale and Karen Thatcher are strapped by their latest two-month bill of $572 for their all-electric, seven-room farmhouse. They have unplugged the freezer and the TV, turned down the thermostat to 60° and swaddled themselves in heavy sweaters in a desperate attempt to economize...
...said the corporation's final decision will hinge upon whether there is "sufficient community support" for the archives and whether the developers find a way to split the archives from the museum "without resulting in costs for the peoject that exceed available funds...
...estimated 7½% in the last quarter of 1974, the biggest annual drop since World War II. The battered auto industry disclosed that new car sales in December skidded 26% below a year ago; for 1974, they were down a punishing 23%. Unemployment has reached 7.1% and threatens to exceed 8% before the recession bottoms out ? the highest jobless rate since 1961. This week, for one week, the Ford Motor Co. will close 22 of its plants, idling 85,000 workers. In response to the worsening economic news, the Louis Harris Poll indicates that 86% of the public thinks...
...OPEC member investments, by contrast, are staggering. This year alone, surplus revenues of OPEC members are running at $60 billion. Of this, almost a fifth has suddenly cascaded into the U.S., going mostly into Treasury bills or similar short-term holdings. By next year, the total is likely to exceed $70 billion. Writing in Foreign Affairs, Exxon Economist Gerald A. Pollack predicts that by 1980 OPEC'S total annual investable surplus could reach almost $500 billion. This is more than ten times as much profit as all U.S. manufacturers earned last year or, broadly expressed another way, enough...