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...nickel on it. I was the first one of the daily papers, in Boston, or any of the papers in the city, to go to five cents. Then there was a tremendous surge in the paper, went to 40,000, 50,000, hit 60,000 a week, paid circulation...
Bail was set at $100 per person, but all were released in their own custody and paid only a seven dollar fee. SDS raised nearly $1100 for bail and legal fees from friends in Claverly, the Co-ops, and from the Peace and Freedom Party in Cambridge...
Even 50 Ibs. of llama manure from the zoo found a taker. Mrs. Walter Ross paid $150 for it and intends to use it in the sunken garden she is growing. "I'm taking their word for it that it's good fertilizer," she says. "It should be, at $3 a pound." As pleased as any was Mrs. Allen Portnoy, who bid for immortality as a flower: the Missouri Botanical Garden will name its next discovery after her. Said her husband, writing out a $200 check, "My wife said she always wanted to be a philodendron." Happiest...
...cities, building-trades unions have long been a major obstacle to fully industrialized housing?buildings with huge parts preassembled in a factory instead of handcrafted at the site from myriad bits and pieces. That money-saving process increases the employment of industrial workers but reduces the need for highly paid (up to $7.30 an hour) building craftsmen at the site. When Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley started flexing his political muscles, however, the unions agreed not only to erect factory-fabricated units, which had long been excluded from Chicago, but to hire neighborhood residents (most of them Negroes) as apprentices...
Every year since 1893, U.S. businessmen and farmers have sold enough goods overseas to take in more money than the nation has paid for its im ports. That trade surplus has long been the foundation of U.S. global economic power. Over the past two decades, it has amounted to $79 billion, greatly diminishing the chronic balance of pay ments deficits caused by foreign aid and investment, overseas tourist traffic and military spending...