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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with suspicious-looking data or none at all. Under its complex rules, price boosts must not increase a company's profit margin-its ratio of earnings to sales-above that of a pre-control base period. To enforce that rule, the commission had ordered that 2,954 companies file profit-margin reports by last week. Nearly 1,600 failed...
After re-election to the Senate in 1968, McGovern helped write the reforms to open the Democratic Party's nominating process to greater participation by the rank and file (TIME, Dec. 6, 1971). Those reforms have helped make his candidacy; state and local party satraps, never pro-McGovern, now have a diminished role in picking the 1972 nominee. In the Senate, though he has taken a major role in trying to end hunger in the U.S., he remains best known for a series of unsuccessful resolutions and amendments, co-sponsored by Republican Mark Hatfield of Oregon, that would...
...Commerce Act, passed in 1887, railroads have been pressed into hauling Government freight free or at reduced rates. That hurts because the Government is now the railroads' largest customer. Through the ICC, the Government has further sanctioned an impossibly complicated railroad rate structure. The ice maintains an unindexed file of 43 trillion different rates on varying weights of varying commodities moving varying distances. The general level of rates is both too high and too low: too high to prevent traffic from fleeing to competing carriers; too low to generate much profit on what freight is left...
Seven staff members of the Columbia Daily Spectator and two of WKCR, Columbia's radio station, plan to file suit against Columbia University for allegedly tapping the organizations' phones...
About 130 books were damaged by fire or water; twenty-five were library books. In addition, some valuable research materials were lost. Fortunately, the original data (voter surveys) were kept on file elsewhere, and the analysis can be replicated--with a good deal of additional work, and at some cost...