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...Inland Port. The biggest gainer could be little Catoosa, a once bedraggled Tulsa suburb (pop. 1,000), which expects after 1970 to handle 12,500,000 tons of cargo a year, more than the ports of St. Louis, Memphis, Pittsburgh or St. Paul. The new port is also expected to generate 14,000 new jobs and $500 million in investment. But all that must wait until a channel is dug from a big tract of land where cottonwoods, scrub oak and pecan trees now stand. For the present, though, it is rather jarring to see a big white water tower...
...with Captain Joseph Edward Snyder Jr. in command, joined a Seventh Fleet Task Force off the South Vietnamese coast. In its first action -which incidentally earned her crew combat pay for all of September - the New Jersey silenced four anti-aircraft positions just above the DMZ and twelve miles inland. It also pounded a bunkered storage depot that had proved impervious to air and artillery strikes...
...price showdown with U.S. Steel.* While Government purchases account for about 8% of the steel industry's total output, it is questionable to what extent Government contractors can be forced to switch suppliers. Kennedy succeeded in beating back U.S. Steel's price hikes by persuading Inland Steel Co. to hold the line, but L.B.J.'s lame-duck status leaves him with far less clout than his predecessor enjoyed...
...time being, however, that remained nothing more than a hope. Within hours after the President's press conference, Republic Steel Corp., the industry's third-biggest company after U.S. Steel and Bethlehem, announced price increases on "principal" steel products of 4.5%. Armco Steel Corp. and Inland followed with broad-based price hikes of their own, and U.S. Steel extended its original increases to several other lines. National Steel Corp. and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. weighed in with selective price boosts. Bethlehem, meanwhile, showed no signs of budging. "In our opinion," said Chairman Edmund F. Martin, "our price increase...
...Among its clients: Heinz, Ford, Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Upjohn, Brunswick, Inland Steel, Union Carbide, PepsiCo, Emhart and Tenneco...