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...Congressmen responded with bills tagging baseball a business subject to antitrust laws, but a third moved in with a counterproposal to exempt all the big-league games-baseball, football, hockey and basketball-from the antitrust laws. Even in the warm sunshine of the training camps, baseball owners shivered to think of the possible consequences of the Supreme Court's call-a state of affairs in which each freely enterprising male with a talent for fielding, flinging or flailing a baseball can sell his prowess to the highest bidder each season. But not all shared their plaint that this would...
...changes, in addition, permit a department to exempt a student from final examinations whenever it has other adequate methods of evaluating his work...
...President, in his reorganization plan, has made a two-fold request of his department heads. He asked first that they recommend career officials, whose policy-making function should exempt them from civil service protection, for appointment to a special Administrative category--Schedule C. Secondly, he inquired whether any department needed additional non-career officials. The second point, since it will not affect present civil service posts, seems worthwhile. The first part, although it may put a number of positions up for grabs, is unsound for strictly non-political reasons...
...York Stock Exchange in 1956, only 44 showed price rises for the year. Among them: Bethlehem Steel (up 30?), Southern Natural Gas (up 16½), Detroit Edison (up 11), General Dynamics (up 8?). Tax-free municipals were even more of a headache. In 1956 alone, $5.4 billion in tax-exempt bonds were floated, bringing the total municipal debt to nearly $50 billion. This flood of issues, competing for an already restricted money supply, forced the market down further...
...finance a new iron mine under Steep Rock Lake in western Ontario (TIME, Nov. 16, 1942. et seq.). Eaton raised $2,250,000 from U.S. investors, got the RFC to lend Steep Rock another $5,000,000, and got agreements from the Canadian and Ontario governments that would exempt Steep Rock from paying taxes until iron was produced...