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Committee Chairman Pepper plans to press for legislation to limit exports and imports, to restrict sales of amphetamine ingredients, and to regulate the sale of drugmaking machinery. The committee will ask for limitation of drug production, based on medical need, and will suggest a ban on a variety of amphetamines, the dangers of which outweigh their legitimate uses. If Pepper succeeds, there will perhaps be no further shipments like the one by a U.S. company to a nonexistent street number that turned out to be the eleventh hole of a Mexican golf course. There Mexican smugglers picked up the goods...
...sale, which must be approved by both companies' boards and by AMC's shareholders, immediately raised the question of who was swallowing whom. American will pay about $86 million in cash, notes and stock for Kaiser Jeep Corp. The deal will make Kaiser Industries the largest single shareholder in AMC, with 22% ownership and two seats on the 14-man board. But there was no evidence that Kaiser intends to add the auto company to its empire of steel, cement, aluminum and chemical companies (total assets: $624 million). The suspicion in Detroit was that two old friends, Edgar...
...countries, acquire a new line for its 2,400 dealers at home, and likely gain much-needed recruits among Jeep's 1,600 dealers, some of whom will switch to AMC. American also inherits Jeep's substantial Government business, which amounted to 62% of its sales of $477 million last year, and a $190 million Jeep contract to build Army trucks, which was announced by the Pentagon on the same day as the sale...
...When it is released for sale next year," the interviewer went on, the encyclopedia would bear the endorsement of "many of the nation's leading educators-John Wayne, Ronnie Reagan, Mayor Daley, Dick Nixon, maybe even old Hubert." President Pusey suddenly seemed a benevolent educator...
...encyclopedia is already on sale now, of course, and the interviewer's little deception was only one minor incident in a major war Collier's wages against its own employees. Several complained to me that they had been cheated out of their wages; it didn't happen to me, but then I didn't stay around long enough to get paid-anyway, I didn't sell any encyclopedias...