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Last week Congress had before it a bill that would make gun-toting tougher and that would cut drastically into the multimillion-dollar-a-year business of weaponry by mail. Drawn up by the Administration and introduced in the Senate by Connecticut Democrat Thomas J. Dodd, the measure would, among other things...
Many American companies have revised their investment plans to include new facilities in Latin America, including Dow Chemical, General Motors and Chrysler, all of which are building large new plants. U.S. Steel, Union Carbide and Alcoa are considering multimillion-dollar expansions there. Chile's government has persuaded its U.S. copper companies-Cerro de Pasco, Kennecott and Anaconda-to invest $410 million by 1970. Venezuela has done such an effective job of mopping up its Communists that Jersey Standard's Creole and other oil companies, which transferred more than $100 million out of the country...
...shuttle to New York once a week on financing missions, but such trips are seldom necessary nowadays; they go to Wachovia. The bank's officials know their region well, and their formula for success is to stick to it. One bank officer recently had a crack at a multimillion-dollar piece of business in New York. He turned it down: too far north...
...honeymoon is over," said Home, as he took the floor to blast Labor for raising taxes, strangling credit and threatening to cancel the British aircraft industry's multimillion-dollar project for the supersonic Concord airliner. Home could hardly be heard. For as he began to speak the House dissolved into a raging bedlam of angry partisans, bellowing insults at one another, shaking fists, waving sheaves of papers in the turbulent air. Amid repeated pleas for order, Sir Alec managed to charge that the Labor government had gone back on its campaign promises to revitalize Britain, turned instead to "panic...
...delivered to the Air Force this year at a cost of more than $100 million. "With an aircraft like this," said LTV Executive Vice President Paul Thayer, as he talked of the brush-fire wars the plane might be used for, "a clearing in a forest performs like a multimillion-dollar runway...