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...Harbor Lawn Mount Olive Mortuary, Cemetery and Crematory in Costa Mesa, Calif., is accused of even grislier practices. To handle its backlog of bodies, former employees claim, the mortuary crammed corpses five at a time into gas ovens built for one. The jumbled ashes were allegedly dumped into 30-gal. trash cans. Then, says Bob Kilburn, a funeral refrigeration-supply manufacturer who installed a cooler at Harbor Lawn three years ago, "they'd scoop up ashes with a pail and fill ten cardboard boxes, type up ten labels and proceed to make ten people." In other words, the remains...
...passed a bill that would for the first time pay dairy farmers not to produce milk. In the past, such "paid diversions" have been offered to grain and cotton farmers. The bill provides for payments to farmers of $10 for each 100 lbs. of milk (about 12 gal.) not produced, up to 30% of their average annual output. The price-support level for milk-the price at which the Government agrees to buy up surpluses-would be trimmed immediately from...
...technology and noise-abatement rules are bringing down the aircraft in the U.S. Built in an age when jet fuel cost 90 per gal. and environmental restrictions were minimal, the bird is out of date in a period of expensive fuel ($1 per gal.) and tough noise rules...
...Mexican assets, then crossed the border to his $250,000 town house in McAllen, Texas. There, García fired off a letter to President De la Madrid accusing Barragán and the alleged behind-the-scenes "godfather" of the union, Joaquín Hernández Galícia (alias La Quina, a diminutive for his first name) of bilking the union of more than $130 million, 20 times the amount he was accused of taking. García was in a position to know, he later claimed, because he had acted as bagman...
...last week, John Doe, American, swung his car onto the freeway-only to discover that the posted speed limit had been reduced from 60 m.p.h. to 50 m.p.h. When he stopped at a gas station for a refill, he learned that overnight the price had gone up 2? per gal. At his office he felt unusually cool because the thermostats had been pushed down a couple of degrees to a brisk...