Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...players the only ones building up resentments. Gasoline attendants find themselves wasting up to ten minutes per customer explaining the rules of each new game. Adding to the attendants' frustration, many drivers have taken to driving into station after station for a token gallon of gas while picking up more game chances. "America's service stations stand in danger of becoming one enormous coast-to-coast casino," warns E. D. Brockett, chairman of Gulf Oil Corp., one of the few major oil companies to abstain from the games. "Costs will rise and service will suffer," says Brockett...
...bleed into his gastrointestinal tract. Evidently the clotting mechanism in his blood had been knocked out by the failure of his liver to produce the necessary enzymes. His platelets (tiny disklike elements in the blood, which are important in clotting) plummeted from a normal count of 250,000 per cu. mm. to 4,000. This required heroic measures. Kasperak had to have blood transfusions, and to remove metabolic wastes from his body the surgeons punched another hole in him-through the abdominal wall, for peritoneal dialysis. This is a process in which a solution is pumped into the abdominal cavity...
...keep the money rolling in, IHI this month will start large-scale production of an improved version of the World War II Liberty ships. Called Freedom ships, the 13,870-ton cargo vessels can be mass-produced at $2.8 million apiece, eventually at the rate of 18 per year. There are over 900 Liberty ships still tramping around the world, and IHI spotted a lucrative market in replacing them. Though the mini-cargoes may appear insignificant alongside the latest-model tankers, the company already has orders...
Setting Records. Though Inco is giving Thompson highest priority, it is also expanding in Ontario, where five new mines are being opened. "In Canada, alone," says Inco President Albert Gagnebin, "there are programs to produce 100 to 150 million more pounds of nickel per year by 1970." To finance all this expansion, a company that has been financially conservative ever since it was organized in 1902 may have to go into debt for the first time. Inco is not worried at the prospect. Rising demand and higher nickel prices produced a profit of $118 million last year on sales...
...lost production. Were Chrysler to be struck, for example, G.M. and Ford would go into Saturday overtime production to build 12,000 cars (or 40% of Chrysler's weekly production). After the first week of the strike, they would then pay Chrysler $500 per Saturday-overtime car, or $6,000,000 each week. Had the pact been implemented, Ford, which was the only company to be struck during the 1967 negotiations, could have picked up $96 million during the eight weeks in which its production lines were stopped...