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Almost half of the 130 stores that once lined the city's main shopping streets are gone. So much business has fled the community that city hall is now the third largest employer, public schools the fourth. More than half of the city's families live on less than $3,000 a year; 21% of the labor force is unemployed. One-fourth of the 82,000 residents receive some kind of public assistance. Relations between the city's 38,000 whites and its 44,000 Negroes are abrasive at best. Though little organized vice survives...
...going to get rich working for the Coop, but it does pay the minimum wage of $1.60 per hour, with the average employee wage at $1.95 per hour. For a number of years the Coop has sought employees through Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD), the largest agency in Boston working in the poverty field. While the Coop already employs proportionately more blacks--about seven per cent--than the other department stores in the area, it is actively seeking even more...
...explicit: we should stop abusing political leaders and the military-industrial complex and admit that "perhaps no one is in charge." And in the first lecture he commented ominously, "Only those who know the Federal Government very well indeed know how disinclined it is to think in the largest terms about the nation's future." Right or wrong, the theory is an ingenious one, and like much of Gardner's writing it rings with a convincing air of sophistication...
...possibility of a suit against LTV has been under consideration since the last months of the Johnson Administration. Under its acquisitive founder, James J. Ling, Dallas-based LTV has grown since 1957 from a $4,000,000-a-year contracting company into the nation's 14th largest corporation, with sales last year of $2.8 billion. And its takeover last summer of Pittsburgh's J. & L.-whose sales of $900 million make it the nation's sixth largest steel producer -was the biggest conglomerate merger in history. J. & L. stock was selling for about $50 before the merger...
...manufacturers, who commonly follow the lead of the U.S. Steel Corp. in pricing and other policy matters. Even his critics acknowledge that Ling is certainly imaginative. One testimony to the productive efficiency of his company comes from the Government itself, which has made it the nation's seventh largest defense contractor...