Word: pennsylvania
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...worth of damage to one mine's scales. In Baldwin, Ill., another band of strikers delayed a train carrying coal to the state power company by stacking and burning railroad ties on the tracks leading into the utility's plant. In the snow-covered hills of western Pennsylvania, roadblocks set up by striking pickets, sometimes 500 strong, forced coal-truck drivers to dump up to 100 tons at a time on the highways. Any drivers who refused could count on having their windshields smashed and their tires punctured with ice picks...
...quietly decisive trial lawyer plucked from private practice in Baltimore on the recommendation of Carter Adviser Charles Kirbo, had his brief encounter with the Marston affair while serving as head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division. Marston had told a Civiletti aide, Russell ("Tim") Baker, that Pennsylvania Congressman Joshua Eilberg was involved in a corruption investigation. Carter and Bell have said they did not know that Eilberg was a target at the time they agreed to his request to dump Marston. But what escaped their notice is another question...
There are other signs of ineptitude as well. Quite apart from Marston's probe in Philadelphia, Justice investigators in Washington became aware late last year that Eilberg and his fellow Pennsylvania Democrat Daniel J. Flood were both candidates for investigation. Following a federal bribery conviction, a former Flood aide named Stephen Elko arrived at the department offering to tell tales?in exchange for immunity from further prosecution?that implicated Flood and Eilberg. Yet by all accounts, this information did not travel up the department hierarchy in time to warn Bell and Carter away from the urgings of Eilberg, whose telephone...
...Ties between Flood and Pennsylvania Rackets Boss Russell Bufalino. The suspected link: the Wilkes-Barre firm of Medico Industries, controlled by President Philip Medico and his brothers. The FBI discovered more than a decade ago that Flood steered Government business to the Medicos and traveled often on their company jet. Investigators say Bufalino frequently visited the Medico offices; agents tape-recorded Bufalino's description of Philip as a capo (chief) in his Mafia family. Elko's testimony has sparked new investigative interest in the Flood-Medico-Bufalino triangle...
...stick proposal was conceived by Federal Reserve Board Governor Henry C. Wallich and University of Pennsylvania Economist Sidney Weintraub. In essence, they recommend that any employer granting wage increases of 1 % or more above certain federal guidelines be forced to pay the same amount in penalty taxes. The guidelines would be reckoned by taking the annual rate of productivity increase in the employer's industry and then adding one-half of the nation's prevailing inflation rate. By that formula, the guideline for overall industrial wages would be about 5% (that is, the rate of productivity increase added...