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...bicycle does not pollute [June 14]? What folly! Into the production of a bicycle go the production of metals, rubber, plastics and grease with their polluting side products. Into the production of a horse goes nothing not in nature already...
After its task is done, the bicycle leaves behind an unsightly metal frame and useless rubber tires. The horse, on the other hand, leaves a healthy lump of fertilizer...
...best-known bootlegging collective, southern California's Rubber Dubber, looks more like a corporation than a commune. It has a production staff of 40 to 50, plus a sales force of hundreds peddling to retailers and at rock concerts. Rubber Dubber sends direct-mail advertisements to record-store managers, retains an attorney to fight occasional lawsuits from legitimate recording companies, and even pays royalties to artists whose works are bootlegged. The organization produces upwards of 300,000 albums a year...
...Upon reaching 55, a retired worker could collect half pay after 20 years on the job and full pay after 40 years. Since pensions already devour 11? of every dollar paid in state and city taxes in New York, the legislature balked. For the first time, it refused to rubber-stamp a city-approved pension...
Another kind of cart carries passengers from check-in counters to aircraft loading areas at Tampa's shiny new $80 million terminal. Called "horizontal elevators," these conveyances run on rubber wheels, have no seats but offer plenty of vertical safety poles to cling to, and are designed to operate smoothly for the benefit of the large percentage of elderly riders in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area. Municipal airports in Dallas, San Francisco and Los Angeles have built moving sidewalks -conveyor belts that transport passengers to loading areas; in Los Angeles, for example, they save about 420 ft. of walking...