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...even the final surge could help Pittsburgh shopkeepers, whose business was curtailed 30% by a transit strike in early December. Downtown sales there finished the season 6% below last year. At the other extreme was New York's Tiffany & Co., which did not stay open Sundays and bucked the pattern of Gimbels, Macy's, Korvette's and other retailing giants. Sales were up 16% over last Christmas. Gloated Chairman Walter Moving: "Obviously Sunday sales have not been very successful because they have taken away from sales during the week...
Architects for the MBTA have submitted several versions of the proposal to the Urban Mass Transit Authority (UMTA), Mila Dixon, special assistant for communications for the Public Information Office of the MBTA, said yesterday...
Wedded to no ideology except Chicago's growth, Daley had close ties to labor, yet won business support with low taxes and favorable zoning. Above all, he encouraged construction. The city was transformed by expressways, rapid transit, O'Hare International Airport, new university campuses and a parade of high-rises that made the Chicago shoreline one of the most exciting in the U.S. As Daley put it in one of his malapropisms, "Together we must rise to higher and higher platitudes...
...dying railroads. In 1973 he was the primary author of the Conrail plan, merging the bankrupt Penn Central and other roads into a Northeastern network. He favors continued regulation of the trucking industry and−most important to big-city dwellers−he believes in improvements in mass transit...
...emphasis on Government spending for job-creating programs, less on a tax cut. On the Board of Economists, Nathan favors that approach as a method not only to put people to work but to begin tackling some of the nation's unmet social needs−for example, mass transit and aid to education. Other Democrats on the board doubt that new spending programs beyond $5 billion or so could be cranked up quickly enough to give the economy the immediate lift it needs. In any case. Carter will be wary of going too far for fear of upsetting...