Word: inde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Environmental Protection Agency last week won its biggest victory yet in a water-pollution case. After five years of litigation, U.S. Steel Corp. agreed to stop dumping cyanide, ammonia and phenols-all toxic pollutants-into Lake Michigan and the Grand Calumet River from its huge works at Gary, Ind. It has been pumping out 16,700 Ibs. a day of solids, part of them toxic...
...Congleton Perrysville, Ind...
Died. General Lewis Blaine Hershey, 83, director of the Selective Service (1941-70), who supervised the draft of 14.5 million Americans; in Angola, Ind. Hershey enlisted in the Indiana National Guard in 1911, went to France with an Army artillery unit in World War I and later became a member of the Army-Navy committee that laid the groundwork for the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. A target of antiwar protesters during the Viet Nam War, he countered by calling them "enemies of the U.S." and urging draft boards to step up their induction. While instituting the draft...
Notre Dame, Ind...
...fuel crisis that followed the 1973 Arab oil embargo dealt recreational-vehicle sales a heavy blow, but Weiger took advantage of the downturn to mass-purchase chassis and their components. When the shortage passed, Weiger opened a 130,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing and assembly operation in Elkhart, Ind. He promoted the star of Midas' 30-model trailer, camper and motor-home lineup: the Midas mini-motor home, known as a Chopped Van. Midas buys the cab and chassis of a GM, Ford or Dodge van, then builds on an insulated aluminum and wood body complete with tub, shower, refrigerator...