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Pillsbury Co., a firm of flour power, has a message of love. To millions of housewives, it preaches that the way to express affection for husband and chil dren is to bake them a cake. Its ads pro claim that "Nothin' Says Lovin' Like Something from the Oven, and Pillsbury Says It Best." This somewhat sac -charine slogan helps to boost sales. In the fiscal year ending last May, they rose to a record $526 million, and prof its increased 7.4% to $13 million. This year the Minneapolis-based company anticipates an earnings gain of 10%, which...
...over the state. Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos, whose tribes were there before the white men, originally claimed 469,000 sq. mi. (80% of the state) under an old, almost-forgotten law. Now they are asking the Interior Department for a settlement of 62,500 sq. mi. and $500 million. Interior has so far refused, and ultimate settlement will be up to the next Administration...
...companies and the Alaskan state government are still mulling over ways to move it. The companies prefer a pipeline to a relatively ice-free port like Valdez. The line would have to weather destructive ground heaves caused by summer thaws and winter freezes and could cost $500 million or more. Alaska's Governor Walter J. Hickel is pushing his longtime dream of extending the Alaska Railroad beyond its present Fairbanks terminal all the way to the Arctic Sea. Washington's Department of Transportation, which runs the federally owned, 541-mile road, has balked so far at the estimated...
...military bases. The state government will collect a 12.5% royalty in the form of oil, which it will sell to processors for the profitable petrochemical trade that they already conduct with Japan. Eventually, oil will mean far more to the state than gold, of which about $750 million worth has been mined since 1880. Only $760,000 worth will be produced this year, as Alaska continues to run out of the metal that ruined those whom Poet Service called "the crippled and palsied and slain...
...Model Cities Program has occupied stage center for the last few months. The Model Cities area in Boston encompasses about 62,000 residents, mostly black, in the Roxbury, North Dorchester, and Jamaica Plain sections of Boston. White submitted an $18 million plan to the Council, including provisions for community control of schools within the area and replacement of police by neighborhood "security patrols...