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...pipelines, says Joseph C. Swidler, chairman of the Federal Power Com mission, have had "a revolutionary impact on our economy." The revolution started in World War II to thwart tanker-hunting U-boats; the Big Inch and the Little Inch, from Texas to the Atlantic Coast, were the first major lines. Since then, pipelines have grown so fast that they now transport more than 30% of all the energy used in the U.S. They have created a revolution >n home-heating and cooking, provided cheaper industrial power and, less happily, caused severe wrenches in existing coal and oil industries. Twenty...
...Joseph Swidler, a former New Dealer and TVA general counsel, preaches the advantages of a dual system of public and private utilities. Since 1961, he has helped clear up the overwhelming backlog of 4,000 rate cases, expanded the 1,200-man agency's enforcement authority...
...REGULATORY AGENCIES. A major source of the business community's sense of harassment is the new aggressiveness of the watchdog agencies. Some railroadmen see nationalization coming on the heels of the Interstate Commerce Commission's recommendation for federal subsidies for passenger lines. New Chairman Joseph C. Swidler of the Federal Power Com mission, describing himself as "consumer-minded," says that he will cut natural-gas rates even if customers do not petition for reduction. Groans one Western corporation chief about the choice of Careerist Paul Dixon to head the Federal Trade Commission: "Kennedy appointed a career prosecutor...