Word: spend
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until Sept. 1 to eliminate the sickening stench of burning bones from its chicken-rendering plant. At a Chicago convention, the American Petroleum Institute earmarked $1,800,000 for research on purer air and water next year, on top of $41 million that in dividual oil firms will spend to control pollution...
...these developments symbolize the nation's increasing effort to stop the poisoning of its air and water by industrial plants that often seem to rival Cartoonist Al Capp's highly pungent Skonk Works. They also emphasize the growing pressures on both industry and communities to spend heavily in an effort to speed up the attack. The Gov ernment estimates that 1) U.S. indus try will have to spend ten times its pres ent $100 million annually for treating waste water if it hopes to end industrial pollution of the nation's rivers; 2) communities will have...
...requirements set by the Ohio River Valley Sanitation Commission (v. only 75% five years ago). At its Houston refinery, Shell Oil now purifies its used water so thoroughly that fish swim in a pond at the end of the process. Ford Motor Co. announced last month that it will spend $1,000,000 to scrub liquid wastes flowing into the Rouge River from its Dearborn steel plant. Four major steel firms recently agreed to spend $50 million over seven years to eliminate the 160 tons a year of red dust they now spew over every square mile of Chicago...
Raymond A. Paynter, curator of birds at the Museum of Comparative Zoology and his wife have been released from the hospital in Cuenca, Ecuador. They will fly to New York Thursday night and spend a few days with their family in Hamden, Connecticut, before returning to Cambridge...
...endless column-inches of chatter and adulation that greet the emergence of any possible Republican Presidential candidate. In Mr. Lindsay's case, the speculation will be more idle than usual, for New York's 103rd Mayor seems all too likely to do just what he has promised--spend the next four years in the Gracie Mansion...