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...Trust Co., concedes that the oil department of his own bank took a dim view of Home-Stake, but he disregarded its opinion and invested $114,000. A revised Home-Stake prospectus issued in 1971 should have raised red flags for businessmen, if they read it. Robert Metzger, president of Resource Programs, a firm that sells advice to investors in oil and gas, says that he and his colleagues used to "sit down and read the Home-Stake prospectus and laugh." Among other things, the prospectus admitted that estimates of oil and gas reserves cited by Home-Stake in promotional...
...appears unmoved by the financial toll that the strike is taking of his company. A nationwide boycott of Farah products, backed by the AFL-CIO and strongly endorsed by the bishop of El Paso, the Most Rev. Sidney M. Metzger, has bitten deeply into sales, despite a high-priced TV advertising campaign featuring athletes wearing Farah pants...
Also: James B. Metzger of Mather House and Princeton, N.J.; Michael W. Michelson of Leverett House and Springfield, Pa.; Winthrop G. Minot of Lowell House and Greenwich, Conn.; Lawrence G. Miller of Quincy House and Baltimore, Md.; Timorthy i. Mueller of Leverett House and Framingham; Carl F. Muller of North House and Blythewood, S.C.; James W. Muller of Currier House and Mt. Kisco, M.Y.; Stephen N. Oesterle of Adams House and West Lafayette, Ind.; and, Harry J. Porta of Leverett House and Pittsburgh...
...final irony to the situation. The natural gas deposits being tapped by nuclear wells lie beneath much of the nation's vast reserve of oil shale, which one day might well become a major source of domestic energy supplies. If the blasts continue, says Biochemist H. Peter Metzger, they will leave immense amounts of radioactive fission products in the earth, posing a lingering danger to workers who may some day mine the shale...
Such paternalism, the strikers commonly complain, insults their "digni-dad." To get a raise, the workers must fulfill unbearably demanding production quotas, such as sewing six belts per minute onto finished slacks when most say that it is possible to do only five. Bishop Metzger estimates that employees take home an average $69 per week, while unionized workers at the Levi-Strauss and Tex-Togs plants in El Paso net $102. That, says the bishop, "sounds more like a living wage...