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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spellbound Senators. He proposed a better way. Each state should merely pay each billboard company to take down its signs as leases expire. In one blow, red tape would be minimized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Highway: How to Remove Billboards | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...long ago, industrial developers asked the 236 voters of Trenton, Maine, to approve the construction of an aluminum refinery and a nuclear power plant on the pristine shores of Union River Bay. A yes vote might have been expected. After all, countless U.S. towns beg for new industry to pay taxes and provide jobs. But the Trenton vote was a resounding no. A key factor was the Maine Times, a plucky weekly newspaper that lambasted the developers and explained precisely how their plans could pollute Trenton's air, land and water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resources: Trying to Save Maine | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...year old this month, the Times is a unique statewide paper that tirelessly harasses would-be wreckers of Maine's environment. The attack is mounted by two Yale graduates, Editor John N. Cole. 46, and Publisher Peter W. Cox, 32, who raised $100,000 to pay for offset printing, two full-time reporters and a rented building in the hamlet of Topsham. Cole quit an incipient gray-flannel career in Manhattan to become a commercial fisherman, later edited several Maine newspapers. Cox is the son of Oscar Cox, a noted international lawyer. By no means opposed to all industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resources: Trying to Save Maine | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...sale, which must be approved by both companies' boards and by AMC's shareholders, immediately raised the question of who was swallowing whom. American will pay about $86 million in cash, notes and stock for Kaiser Jeep Corp. The deal will make Kaiser Industries the largest single shareholder in AMC, with 22% ownership and two seats on the 14-man board. But there was no evidence that Kaiser intends to add the auto company to its empire of steel, cement, aluminum and chemical companies (total assets: $624 million). The suspicion in Detroit was that two old friends, Edgar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Over the Top in a Jeep | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...President William V. Luneburg took over in 1967. At that time, AMC's future seemed so shaky that its creditors, a consortium of 24 banks headed by Chase Manhattan, examined the books every ten days. The new chiefs sold AMC's finance subsidiary and Kelvinator Appliance to pay some of the debts, trimmed costs by $20 million annually to cut the breakeven point from 343,000 to 250,000 cars a year, and last year turned a profit of $3,300,000 on sales of 260,000 cars. Chapin and Luneburg expect to reach $4,000,000 this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Over the Top in a Jeep | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

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