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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cleveland's great industries have lately made efforts to dump fewer noxious effluents into the Cuyahoga. If their record is still not good, the city's has been far worse. Whenever it rains hard, the archaic sanitary storm system floods the sewer mains, sending untreated household wastes into the river. Sometimes the old mains break, as recently happened on the Big Creek interceptor line. Each day for the past month, 25 million gallons of raw sewage have cascaded from a ruptured pipe, spilling a gray-green torrent into the Cuyahoga and thence into Lake Erie...
...race in a slightly inferior model usually driven by a teammate. On top of that, his clutch jammed on the fourth lap and he was forced to powershift for the remaining 80. Yet his average speed of 127.25 m.p.h. was nearly 10 m.p.h. faster than the existing track record-set in 1967 by Clark...
...consumer is paying a record $1.33 a Ib. for round steak and 48? a lb. for tomatoes. Admittedly, he is more able than before to foot the bill. After declining for some time, the average U.S. worker's real purchasing power has begun to climb because most wage increases are now exceeding rises in the cost of living. Personal income, as reported by the Commerce Department last week, has risen by 9% this year over the first half of last year...
Disheartening Earnings. The stock market faces some problems it did not have in 1966. Investors are worried about the likelihood of higher taxes on capital gains and a reduction in the oil-depletion allowance (see THE NATION). Corporate profits are another disheartening factor. Earnings remained at record levels all through the 1966 market slide. This year most companies reported rises for the second quarter, but there have been some major exceptions, notably in steel, autos and airlines (see following story). Compared with the second quarter of last year, earnings fell 17% at Kaiser Industries, 17% at General Motors...
...Saturday's August 2 paper. The horse is to run in the feature race at Rockingham Park. In his last ten races against second-class sprinters found at the likes of Fort Eire, Greenwood. Hazel Park, Woodbine, Rockingham Park, and Detroit Race Course this horse established an admirable record of nine wins in nine attempts...