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...Industries, are turning a hard eye on expansion plans, especially for 1970. "We'll spend around $275 million this year, as we had figured to do," says Goodyear Chairman Russell DeYoung. "But next year we'll be looking at all our proposed projects with more caution. Possibly outlay will be down." Adds a Firestone official: "Some cutbacks are likely next year." Demand for business loans has begun to taper. The Federal Reserve Board last week announced that loans at major banks declined in July for two weeks, dropping by $262 million to $78.3 billion. One consequence is that...
...special presidential panel that has been invetigating the SST for several months has uncovered new sources of opposition. Many airlines have become skittish about the mammoth financial outlay it would take to buy new fleets of SSTs, and several airline executives have told the presidential board they hope the SST is scrapped. Budget-conscious government officials are also having second thoughts about the $1 billion they are spending in chunks to get the first SST prototypes in the air. And all these fiscal arguments ignore a more basic objection: the right of Americans to live in their already-polluted cities...
...Dear World seemed to be past the point of no return. The doubtful new act cost in the neighborhood of $200,000 to put in (on top of the original outlay of $600,000), and the second act had not yet been touched. The show was scheduled to open in New York on Dec. 26, or about two weeks after the Boston closing...
...ROTC programs, as most students do not actually use their ROTC courses for graduation credit. The military professorships give no real additional power to their holders. And while the Departmental status of the ROTC units does entitle them to free facilities and secretarial services at Shannon Hall, Harvard's outlay for these purposes is dwarfed by the nearly $250,000 provided annually by ROTC scholarships. The services' desire for departmental status cannot be explained by financial or academic considerations...
...emerge from the Supreme Soviet meeting was a 6% increase in Moscow's arms spending. As part of the new budget, the group approved the largest defense appropriation in Soviet peacetime history: 17.7 billion rubles ($19.7 billion). Actually, that figure represents only a fraction of the actual outlay. It covers only the actual housekeeping costs of the Soviet Union's military forces, ammunition purchases and the acquisition of light conventional weapons. The Soviets routinely disguise under other headings their spending for important weaponry. Outlays for nuclear-weapon research and production that run into the billions are hidden under...