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...working conditions, the firm hired non-Teamster drivers. Since then, Bowman trucks have been shot at more than 70 times in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina; four drivers besides Warren have been wounded. More than 20 trucks have been fired at while laboring up a steep grade on U.S. Highway 278 near Piedmont, Ala.; it has come to be known as "Bullet Hill...
Ford's decision to split its stock was taken with a sharp eye on auto sales charts. Ford shares, issued at $64.50 five years ago when Ford went public, have climbed to a high of $117.50-a price so steep that it discourages purchases by small investors. Meanwhile, the stock of Ford's archrival, General Motors, has been selling briskly at around $55. Since the automakers reckon that a shareholder is likely to buy the car made by the company in which he has invested, Ford was understandably anxious to widen ownership of its stock...
Concrete Assets. Monthly rents range from $150 (for one room) to $1,000 (for a seven-room penthouse), with a year's rent payable in advance. Normally, such steep prices would indicate a seller's market, but in the Lebanese capital, the laws of supply and demand are suspended. Perhaps as many as 35,000 apartments are vacant, yet new buildings keep rising amid what may be the most artificial real estate boom since the days of Florida's wild land speculation...
...description to suggest that Britain throw itself immediately into Europe to make certain of its association with dynamism rather than with stasis. It would admittedly have to restructure or get rid of its high-tariff industries (the smaller ones are particularly vulnerable), to reconcile Labourites and housewives to a steep rise in food prices, and to impose a weird system of planning heavily favoring rapid-growth sectors. The food problem, which would arise as soon as Common-wealth produce were no longer able to enter duty-free, might possibly be mitigated if the E.E.C. allowed Britain to maintain...
Miss Wood as Maria, Richard Beymer as Tony, and Tamblyn as Riff are all surprisingly good. But the star of the movie is Rita Moreno, as Anita. Her performance in the duet "I Have a Love" with Maria is all by itself worth the rather steep price of admission...