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...increases on gasoline, heating oil and natural gas would be only the start. Innumerable products made partly from oil would also go up: plastics, chemicals, fertilizers. Higher fuel bills could force up airline fares and freight rates. The greater bills for heating and lighting factories and buying electricity to run machinery could drive up the cost of almost every product. Even wage costs could be raised; many union contracts tie wages partly to the consumer price index, which will be kicked up by the fuel increases...
...York Stock Exchange. 59. Sing Sing Prison; embezzlement. 60. "How long will it take and how much will it cost?" 61. Wealthy people should have multiple votes. 62. Samuel Insull. The testimony of bankrupt stockbrokers--but he was acquitted anyway. 63. In a poker game. 64. Riding freight cars. 65. Henry Ford II. 66. Buy stocks. 67. John D. Rockefeller. 68. Jojn D. Rockefeller. 69. American big business. 70. Dsitributing dimes among children. 71. He disapproved of the picture of Lenin. 72. He observed that the average Arab oil country makes more in a single day than his family does...
...registered to foreign nationals. The Civil Aeronautics Board is empowered to veto the acquisition by aliens of more than 10% of the capital or voting stock of any U.S. airline. Similarly, only ships that are American-built, -owned and -registered can be used to transport freight or passengers between points...
Keyes D. Metcalf, the University librarian when Lippmann made the agreement with Yale, said last year that he had estimated in 1946 that the columnist's papers would require at least a big freight car to be transported. He added that in the two decades since then Lippmann probably accumulated another freight car's worth...
...room cottage sits up in the sere San Bernardino Mountains, on the desert's run northeast of Los Angeles. They have no car or telephone; their mailbox is a mile and a half down a dusty track filled with gulleys and rattlesnakes. But every day a Southern Pacific freight snakes uphill just 25 yds. from their door. For the past five years, Ronnie McGillick, 67, and Loretta Tumulty, 74, have been giving cookies to the train crews. So far, they have passed out more than...