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Richard Brown, 33, was an aeronautical engineer for ten years at a nearby Boeing aircraft plant???before he was laid off. Now he spends his days putting silk-screen designs on T shirts, which he sells. For a pizza-parlor promotion, he prints a picture of a little pizza baker on the shirt; for a hippie head shop he paints a marijuana cigarette design. Brown has given up hope of soon finding another job in his own field; he has not even written a resume. To conserve money, he and his wife spend nothing on entertainment, use powdered milk exclusively...
...minute later, meters at the mammoth $737 million Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant???biggest in the hemisphere?also went wild. The power output surged from 1,500 megavolts to 2,250, then sank abruptly to zero. "The needle came clear off the paper!" exclaimed one engineer. "There were more squiggly lines than in an earthquake." Giant generators spun uncontrollably out of step, and overload switches sprang open...
...enthusiastically on the President's side for a change, view the proposed tax cut much as a company might view a loan. Says influential Wall Streeter Sidney Weinberg, partner of the investment banking house of Goldman, Sachs & Co.: "It's just like when General Motors invests in a new plant???it gets its money back over a period of years...
Dwellers in Cincinnati's Millcreek Valley district are well aware of the proximity of Proctor & Gamble Co.'s plant???particularly when the wind blows in their direction. Makers of long-famed Ivory and new-famed Camay soaps and of Crisco shortening, Procter & Gamble Co. is great Cincinnati industry, William Cooper Procter is great Cincinnati tycoon. Last week, however, Procter and Gamble showed a trace of Manhattan influence. To J. P. Morgan & Co. for $10,000,000 went 150,000 shares of P. & G. stock and an option on 100,000 more at $80. Assuming use of the option, the house...
Reviews?book-notes ? colyums? the organization of literature like an automobile plant???occasional beauty, power or splendor?eternal colyums ?book-notes ? reviews ? reviews ? books about...