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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Defense Marketing Service Market Intelligence Report of March, 1973, said that the guava bomb and certain other Air Force munitions contracts would bring in a total of $10 million for Honeywell in fiscal 1974. DMS is a semi-official organization serving this country's weapons business, and is considered a reliable source by those in the industry. While it is obviously in Honeywell's interest to create the impression that it no longer makes anti-personnel weapons, I can think of no reason why DMS should lie about Honeywell's contracts. Honeywell does not exactly have a record of being...
...control, while prices have gotten out of hand. Poor people are beginning to suffer a decline in their standard of living, but taxation of the rich has not increased and has, in some cases, decreased. The totally unnecessary impostion of the three-day work week has hit manual and semi-skilled workers with unemployment, and has cut the pay of those who have retained jobs. Those earning monthly salaries have not been affected and, needless to say, though the industrialists grumble about bad trading prospects, they still live a very comfortable life. In the past four years the gap between...
...surveys find that not more than 20% of the public go along with the proposition "We have been through bad times before, and things will once more return to the way they used to be." California Pollster Mervin Field assesses the public mood as one of "muted outrage, semi-shock-if not full shock -numbness, perplexity." Typically, a bewildered airline executive in Manhattan complains: "My salary has doubled in the past five years. I can't ask the company for more, they've been good to me already. But I can't keep up with expenses...
...first seven days after their splashdown off Lower California, the crew had little chance to sightsee. While NASA technicians began processing the 70 lbs. of film brought back from Skylab 3, the astronauts were kept in semi-quarantine; their contacts were limited to wives and selected NASA officials, as doctors tried to shield them from infections that would interfere with the medical tests. For 21 days the astronauts must also continue to eat Skylab-type prepackaged food, a teetotaling, less-than-gourmet diet that was particularly hard on Commander Carr; in space he dreamt continually of savoring his favorite cold...
This upset victory seemed to spur on both Lindner and Ingard in the semi-final found, for they dispatched with amazing ease the Princeton team of Dutton and Fisher...