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...York last week the legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill to control land use on 3,700,000 acres of magnificent Adirondack valleys, lakes and mountains. Together with 2,300,000 acres already owned and protected by the state, the entire parcel forms what is in effect the biggest park in the U.S.-twice the size of Yellowstone and slightly larger than Delaware and New Jersey combined...
...investor must usually put up a minimum of $1,500 to $2,000 to buy a "parcel" of raw new spirits that his broker has bought from a Scottish distiller. In return, he gets a receipt from a bonded warehouse in Scotland giving him title to the whisky and bills for storage and insurance costs. After waiting out a three-year aging period specified by British law, he tries to sell his whisky to blenders who run short, or to other investors...
Last year employees of Virginia Electric and Power Co. hand-carried 2,000,000 bills to customers in Richmond and other cities, at a cost per piece that was well below the price of an 8? stamp. Other companies are turning to New York-based United Parcel Service, whose familiar dark brown vans delivered 700 million packages last year in 43 states. The company's 1971 profit rose 71% to $59.8 million. But the newest competitors to the USPS are entrepreneurs who are setting up private post offices to deliver advertising circulars, and other third-or fourth-class mail...
...stations began putting up Exxon signs to replace the firm's other brand names: Esso, Humble and Enco. To fill its need for new signs (along with the big board, each station requires about 50 smaller ones for gas pumps and such), Exxon had to parcel the work among 30 manufacturers. In addition, the new trademark had to be affixed to 11 million credit cards, 22,000 oil wells and 18,000 buildings, plus innumerable employee identification badges, truck mud-flaps and pencils. The company expects to complete the sign changeover by early April at an estimated cost...
...Murdock '01 of Jardine, Hill and Murdock, New York architects. Murdock had been the driving force behind the combination dormitory newspaper, office printing plant plan which had failed in his senior year. The land on which the building was built was acquired in two steps--the first parcel by a committee of graduates and undergraduates, with Crimson money, the second through a $6000 gift from Thomas Cole, of Duluth. Minnesota, father of F. L. Cole '15, then President, Cole's gift, along with a matching sum collected from graduates, was enough to get the project underway. Groundbreaking took place...