Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program had scarcely started when investigators claimed that fully one-fourth of the youths drawing salaries came from families well above the poverty line. One indiscreet Youth Corps girl tooled to work in a 1965 Thunderbird, was asked to resign. In Macoupin County, Ill., Democratic officials turned the program into a patronage pie for their children until OEO found out and ordered 83 youngsters dropped. Protested one $9,000-a-year Democrat jobholder whose stepson was bounced: "He comes from a broken home, don't he? Anyway, to the victors goes the spoils. You know what I mean...
Northbrook, Ill...
...York Central Transportation Co., the greatest private transportation outfit in the world, with assets of $6 billion and annual revenues of $1.6 billion. On 19,356 miles of road, it will haul 12% of the nation's freight and serve 2,816 communities from Montreal to Cairo, Ill., and from Chesapeake Bay to uppermost Michigan. The deal between two century-old rivals climaxes nine years of negotiations, which began with huddles among the late Central Chief Robert R. Young, current Central President Alfred Perlman, and former Pennsy Chairman James Symes...
...that the opposition will fail seems probable. The opponents, who have banded together in a "Save Our City" committee, seek to raise $100,000 to finance a highway study that they hope will show that the Belt is either unneeded or ill-planned. In addition, they seek to mobilize popular support against the highway. Doing either of these things will be difficult, but even if it does succeed, the prospect of the Inner Belt's being scrapped remains slim. One must reckon with the facts: both state and federal highway officials are highly committed to the road; Gov. John...
...Board and 13 on Amex) special margin requirements were set. American Exchange President Edwin D. Etherington last week reminded investors that "it is important, at all times, for people who assess the potential rewards of sound investment to ponder as well the inherent risks of ill-advised or casual speculation." Everybody talked about the small investor, but Etherington seemed to be pointing as well at mutual, pension and investment funds. Rules and reminders, however, did little to bank the fires. Last week, therefore, in the most stringent set of rules ever adopted, the two exchanges simultaneously cracked down...