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Every week, freight trains that are sometimes 80 cars long rumble across the Midwest and into the mouth of a mammoth limestone cave in Kansas City, Kans. Below ground, workers descend upon the boxcars and begin unloading the crated cargo. The tight security suggests an underground nuclear test facility, or maybe a toxic waste storage dump. In fact, the site is actually the U.S. Government's largest warehouse for surplus butter...
...Last January he resigned to become Ronald Reagan's Secretary of the Treasury, Powering Merrill Lynch's growth is a disciplined army of account executives that now number 8,600. To their competitors along Wall Street, the firm's brokers are mere cogs in a mammoth money machine. In fact, when Merrill Lynch merged with the old-line investment-banking firm of White Weld, dozens of executives quit to avoid being consumed by the world's largest brokerage house. But there is a strong Marine-like esprit de corps among the troops at Merrill Lynch that...
...purchasing office takes its largest orders from the AHA, which organizes the mammoth 25th reunion and the smaller 50th, 35th and tenth reunion celebrations...
...microfiche catologue system--slated for introduction this fall--will eventually replace the mammoth card system, freeing space and making the list of Widener holdings available at over 100 locations, Handlin and Feng say. "We haven't hurried into this. We've let other people make mistakes. Our system's too big and complex to make them," Handlin says...
...Western area to establish a base from which to carry the gospel of peace," declared Church President Spencer Kimball and his two counselors last week. "It is ironic, and a denial of the very essence of that gospel, that in this same general area there should be constructed a mammoth weapons system potentially capable of destroying much of civilization." Utah's Governor Scott Matheson, also a foe of the MX roadway plan, the Air Force's favorite among 35 safeguarding options, called the Mormons' opposition to the deployment of the missile "an exceptional step for the church...