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Doris K. Flowerday Westland, Mich...
...buildup will be worsened by the corrosive effect of defense spending on the economy as a whole. Money spent on men and materiel soaks up available resources but provides little in the way of productive goods and services. Marion Anderson, director of Employment Research Associates, a Lansing, Mich., consulting firm, has concluded that while $1 billion invested in missiles creates 14,000 jobs, the same amount would mean 48,000 positions in a labor-intensive area like hospitals...
Birmingham, Mich...
Regardless of this opposition, the measure has a good chance of passage in the Senate, and the real battle will probably take shape in the House, where several representatives have proposed progressive alternatives to S. 1630. Most notably, John Conyers Jr., (D-Mich.) has introduced a liberal omnibus reform bill, H.R. 4711, which would provide the needed streamlining without violating the Constitution in the name of law and order...
...number of U.S. companies have noted a modish increase in their profits as well. Gerber Products in Fremont, Mich., makers of baby food, pacifiers, baby bottles and other merchandise, recorded sales of $282.6 million at the end of 1972. Last year sales had swelled to $631 million. Child Craft, in Salem, Ind., a baby-furniture maker, has noted a "remarkable upsurge" in sales. One of the reasons, says David Branaman, vice president of sales, is that some couples spend up to $2,500 on clothing, furniture and equipment by the time the baby comes home from the hospital...