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...Canadian, ruled the Federal Power Commission, will go into the Northwest. On the American Exchange some Canadian issues dropped by a third, and trading was suspended for a time in Pacific Petroleums Ltd., down 3½ points to 7¼. The Vancouver Stock Exchange was hit even harder; Inland Natural Gas tumbled from $2.50 to $1.15, Peace River Natural Gas from...
Last week the desacato law took some Argentines in the inland city of Cordoba far beyond the point of absurdity. Traffic Commissioner Antonio J. Lucco wrote an appeals court .judge a letter informing him that he was not entitled to the particular official license plate he was using on his car. Two days later, the court ordered Lucco arrested for desacato. Sentence: four days in jail. Offense: using "Esteemed Sir" as the salutation of the letter instead of "Your Excellency...
...broader sense, Inland Steel Co.'s Board Chairman Clarence Randall summed up the public-relations job still to be done: "Every American businessman must have his own thoughtful, personal philosophy ... if we are to be restored as leaders. We must communicate those ideas to those about us on every conceivable occasion, by every medium at our disposal...
...Washington's bureaucracy, the champion is probably the Interstate Commerce Commission, oldest of the Government's nine independent regulatory bodies. And yet its job is one of the most important. It rules over the destinies of 450 railroads, 20,000 truck lines. 300 freight haulers on inland and coastal waterways, pipelines, terminal companies, etc. Currently, the ICC is in the middle of the fight for the New York Central and has petitions from both sides charging skulduggery. Nobody would be more surprised than the petitioners if the ICC concluded its investigations before the issue is decided...
...system similar to the "sea trains" used by the railroads to carry freight cars by water. Using specially designed ramp-loaded ships, the company plans to drive trailers on board at a Southern port, steam them north at 20-knot speeds, where waiting trucks would take them to inland customers. Each ship would make six round trips monthly between Wilmington, N.C. and Northern ports with 240 trailers each trip...