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...example, that "the type of service a public monopoly renders the public is a factor in determining its rates." On this ground, he is trying to block Chicago Commonwealth Edison's request for a rate increase; the utility's power plants still burn coal with such high sulphur content that the company admits they cause 11% of the city's air-pollution problems...
...place is a disaster area," says University of Montana Botanist Clarence C. Gordon, who was called in with other scientists by the National Air Pollution Control Administration to study the problem. The scientists found that sulphur dioxide in the fumes kills the tips of some trees and causes others to lose their needles or grow buds in unsightly clusters...
...vessel got stuck in the ice in the McClure Strait. The Manhattan broke loose 24 hours later and headed toward the Beaufort Sea. Should the Manhattan's voyage be successful, the way will then be clear to bring Alaska's wealth of iron, zinc, copper and sulphur readily to market as well...
When Mexico bought 66% of the Mexican affiliate of Pan American Sulphur Co. in 1967, Quintana was one of four businessmen invited to share 35% of the investment. Now that Mexico seeks to develop its own oil industry, Quintana is reaching out again. He will provide all the drilling equipment for the venture...
Boggs, now majority whip, would like to become Speaker eventually. He realizes that the surtax is necessary and that some degree of reform is probably unavoidable. Recently, reports TIME Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil, Boggs met secretly in New York City with a number of oil and sulphur executives. He advised them that some reduction in the depletion allowance was necessary in order to prevent even more drastic changes in other tax regulations bearing on their industries...