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...additional employment opportunities," May says. "Nothing is established yet, but by the middle of May we hope to have a proposal to implement a large-scale input program. "We've pulled in a number of people from Roxbury in an attempt to set up some sort of self-replenishing feeder organization to supply the Coop with a steady stream of employees...
...Uniform Uniforms. Besides lightening their flight schedules, some airlines may have to cancel or at least defer new aircraft orders. John Crooker Jr., chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, is particularly concerned about local feeder lines. Recent jet purchases have enabled these carriers to increase their available seat miles (the number of seats multiplied by the distance flown) by 40% over the past year. However, they have increased passenger traffic by only 27%. Feeder lines, Crocker warns, may have committed themselves to "substantially more equipment than projected traffic warrants...
...instant cattlemen, Oppenheimer will assemble a herd, buy a spread, hire a manager and oversee the whole operation. "Real crapshooters," as Oppenheimer calls clients who are able and willing to win or lose as much as 50% on their money in a single year, can go for so-called "feeder contracts." For a down payment of $50,000 or so, Oppenheimer will handle the financing and feeding of a 500-head herd until the cattle reach proper weight and grade. The herd must then go to market, whether volatile beef prices are on the rise (which means...
...leaders to speak out in warning. >In Laos, the major staging area for Communist forces moving into South Viet Nam, at least 2,500 North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao troops have surrounded the southern provincial capital, Saravane. The city is important because it sits astride Route 23, a main feeder to the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and commands the whole southern region. Last week an outnumbered royalist force of 1,000 managed to turn back attacks on two outposts defending it, but lost a third. "Some say the fighting in Laos is a forgotten war," said Brigadier General Oudone Sananikone...
...make three in this case-they may well add up to ten." So says G. Robert Henry, 51, president of Pacific Air Lines. Henry's arithmetic stems from the profits he anticipates from a merger of Pacific and two other regional, or feeder, airlines: Phoenix's Bonanza and Seattle's West Coast. The system, after approval by stockholders and the CAB, will cover eight Western states...