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...idea seemed a natural. The Blackfeet Indian tribe, having full authority over its affairs on the reservation, would authorize the installation of slot machines. White and red man alike could gamble away, and the tribe's coffers would fatten. But when the Palomino Bar on the edge of Glacier National Park put in four machines, a federal agent promptly confiscated the one-armed bandits. A tribal court issued a restraining order, and the whole thing wound up before Federal District Judge Russell Smith. "No doubt the Indian tribes were at one time sovereign, and even now the tribes...
...million to increase production, most of it for its compacts, Nova and Omega, and its sub-compact Vega. Ford has started a $250 million construction program to boost output of its Pintos, Comets and Mavericks. Chrysler is also expanding production facilities for its Valiant and Dart compacts. To fatten the relatively slender profits from smaller cars, manufacturers are loading the 1974 compacts with all kinds of optional items, such as luxurious vinyl and woodgrain interiors and air conditioners...
...NEED professionals who are not looking to fatten themselves on the public payroll in the capitals of our countries. We need professionals who go to the provinces, who immerse themselves in the provinces...
Scarcities of milk and other dairy products could develop by August. Herrell DeGraff, president of the American Meat Institute, predicts that beef supplies could well grow leaner and costlier by early winter. Cattlemen are avoiding oppressive feed prices by letting their steers fatten on grass, a process that takes about 90 days longer than grain feeding...
After 15 years of trying and more than 1,000 experimental mixed marriages, D.C. ("Bud") Basolo has produced a herd of 5,000 hardy cow-buffalo hybrids. The animals, says Buffalo Bud, are cheaper to feed and more resistant to disease than standard breeds of cattle. They fatten faster than regular steers (less than twelve months to reach market weight of 1,000 Ibs ) and reproduce readily. Basolo expects to send off a herd of 2,000 for their meat-counter debut this fall in Los Angeles...