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...page study, issued after an eight-month investigation, focuses on the April 28, 1982, auction of leases to 13 tracts in the prized Powder River Basin area. Interior officials say the sale, involving more than 21,000 acres" and 1.6 billion tons of coal, was the largest in the nation's history...
...Powder River deal netted taxpayers $66 million, plus promises of hundreds of millions of dollars more in future royalties. But the House report charges the base price is $60 million less than the committee investigators feel the properties are worth. Moreover, says the report, "such large-scale leasing under poor economic conditions distorts the market by flooding it with leased coal." In sometimes acrimonious testimony before the committee's Interior Subcommittee, Garrey Carruthers, Assistant Secretary for Land and Water Resources, maintained that the sale brought the Government $11 million more than the department's original $55 million estimate...
...states of consciousness. After having had our share of acid, peyote and mushrooms, we are unimpressed by cocaine and wonder why there is such a fascination with it. It is ironic that this middle class that condemned us in the '60s is enslaved by an irrelevant white powder...
...chilly morning in March 1965, a highly unusual gathering took place at Dow Chemical Co.'s headquarters in Midland, Mich. Without any corporate fanfare, Dow scientists met with colleagues from three rival firms, Hooker Chemical, Diamond Alkali and Hercules Powder. On the agenda that day was a discussion of the effects on human health of a family of chemicals known as dioxin. The chemicals, including Agent Orange, later used by the U.S. to defoliate the jungles of Viet Nam, are an unwanted byproduct in the making of herbicides. At the time, most chemists were only vaguely aware of dioxin...
...corporate benevolence. Rather, the documents show, the meeting appears to have been part of an effort to keep discoveries about dioxin's perils from exploding into a public scandal, which could have brought a new outcry for governmental regulation of the chemical industry. Wrote a participant from Hercules Powder: "They [Dow] are particularly fearful of a congressional investigation and excessive restrictive legislation on the manufacture of pesticides...