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...million for navigation and flood-control features, that return no profit. John Day would have a capacity of 1,105,000 kilowatts of power (twice the potential of Bonneville Dam), permit slackwater commercial navigation 328 miles up the Columbia River from the Pacific Ocean to the wheat-growing Inland Empire...
Early vote returns, heavily weighted with big-city votes from Rio and São Paulo, gave Millionaire Politico Adhemar de Barros a temporary lead, but Kubitschek forged slowly ahead after reports began coming in from the inland states, notably Minas Gerais. The count early this week: Kubitschek 2,277,000, Army General Juarez Távora 2,112,000, Barros...
...Gulf, Standard of California. Standard (N.J.), Pure Oil and Cities Service all add to their workers' kitty with as much as 50% worth of stock or bonds. Other companies, while helping their workers buy stock, also do their best to educate them about possible dangers. Sample quote from Inland Steel's booklet: "Buying stocks involves risk . . . Before you buy, you should give consideration to a family insurance plan . . . And it's possible you should begin a home-financing program before investing in stocks...
...stock drops in value, many companies provide truck-sized loophole's to let workers escape from their payments. Inland Steel, Delta C & S Air Lines, Atlanta's Citizens' & Southern National Bank and Dow Chemical all hold the stock until the final payment is made; then if a worker decides that he does not want the stock, his money is returned...
...many men in American industry think of free enterprise as a hunting license, as something they use to get what they want for themselves. [They don't] measure up to the responsibility side of free enterprise, which requires standing on your own feet." Thus last week Inland Steel Chairman Clarence Randall, who is also an adviser on foreign economic policy to the Administration, lashed out at "those who sabotage" free enterprise...