Word: milliken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michigan, Governor William Milliken had to call out the National Guard -first to get him to his office in the capitol. Once there, he, too, declared a state of emergency. Earlier in the week, he had proclaimed Snowmobile Week in the state, but the races at Traverse City had to be canceled: 20-ft. drifts covered the track. Other forms of transportation in the region did no better. Dozens of airports were closed, including those in Indianapolis, Columbus and Detroit. Chicago's O'Hare Airport, the world's busiest, shut down for only the fourth time...
...they were at Houston in large numbers. Cynthia Baker, Daughter of Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, was a delegate at large; Cecilia Apodaca, wife of the Governor, was a delegate from New Mexico; the West Vir ginia delegation included Sharon Rockefeller, the Governor's wife. At Houston, Helen Milliken, wife of Michigan's Governor, declared herself "a newly proclaimed feminist?I used to think it was a bad notion...
...Frank Milliken, 63, Kennecott's president, deputized Senior Vice President Milton Stern to justify the purchase of a company for twice its book value. Stern's explanation: "We liked what we saw at Carborundum in terms of the people, products and continuing growth. We know that $66 is good value." Stern also says that Kennecott had to pay a premium price because it was in "a bidding situation"-meaning that it was in competition with other companies interested in acquiring Carborundum...
...this investment is located in Spartanburg. Hoechst, Germany's chemical giant, operates a $300 million fiber plant there; Switzerland's Sulzer makes textile machinery, as does Italy's Pignone, and within a year Michelin will open a $100 million truck tire factory near the Milliken research center. All told, companies from eight countries have plants in the area, employing 4,500 local citizens. Richard Tukey, head of the local Chamber of Commerce, has just returned from a trip to Holland, Italy, Belgium and Germany, where he sweet-talked manufacturers of chemicals, plastics and ceramics, and told everyone...
Selikoff stressed that his conclusions are preliminary and do not necessarily apply to the millions of people in the state who may have consumed PBB-contaminated farm products. But convinced by the study that the chemicals were harmful to humans, Governor William Milliken and Bobby D. Crim, speaker of the state's house of representatives, immediately urged that the levels of PBBs permitted in food by state regulations be drastically reduced...