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...then, are the states to raise the cash? Already nearly 95% of all U.S. consumers pay state sales taxes, so that lode is just about exhausted. Most state governments could probably squeeze out several million dollars a year in additional revenue by making their real estate assessments, now generally unrealistic, conform to true values. The 17 states that still have no income tax have an obvious source of added funds. In 15 states, changes could be made in constitutions that prohibit local communities from investing their idle cash, an archaism that costs them as much as $100 million a year...
Film has not been shunned because it is scarce. Some 250 companies have churned out 28,000 educational films-a rich, if spotty, lode of material largely unworked by U.S. teachers. The trouble with films, says Dr. Wayne Howell, director of educational development for Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc., has been their "impossible logistics." Teachers have had to request films far in advance from distant distribution centers, use them upon arrival even if their class was not ready, ship them back immediately. Heavy, complex projectors have had to be hauled from storage, set up in the classrooms, operated skillfully. Films have...
...young dude in a silken mustache and patent-leather shoes adrift through the California gold mine country, Harte discovered the literary lode he was to tap for the rest of his life. The Luck of Roaring Camp and The Outcasts of Poker Flat, two short stories published in the Overland Monthly magazine, gave readers so honest and vigorous a draft of frontier life that Harte became an overnight celebrity. It is fair to say, as O'Connor does, that the literature of the West began with Bret Harte...
...Limited Lode. From its beginning, Homestake was the dominant economic, social and cultural force in its area. The town of Deadwood, last resting place of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane, grew up less than five miles away as an entertainment annex for the miners. Now, with 1,692 workers at Lead (pop. 6,200), Homestake is South Dakota's second largest industrial employer. It has given its workers so many benefits -a free hospital, elaborate recreation center and incentive bonuses-that Homestake employees have roundly rejected unions five times...
Still, no lode is limitless, and though Homestake gold ore reserves are 16 million tons, the company is diversifying. "A mining company that stays with its mine is a liquidating venture," says McLaughlin. In 1953 he moved Homestake into uranium, which has since supplanted gold as the company's leading moneymaker, last year provided $2,500,000 of its $4,950,000 total profit on overall sales of $29.4 million. As with gold, the Government was the sole legal customer and fixed the price; besides, the Administration announced that its need for uranium would be satisfied...