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...Tank. In 1937, at the age of 50, Kirwan came to Washington from Youngstown, elected to the congressional seat once held by Presidents James Garfield and William McKinley. Despite his double negatives and other grammar gaps, he was re-elected 14 times, thereby earning enough seniority on the Appropriations Committee to become the House's undisputed Prince of Pork. Kirwan is never loath to combat a political foe by lidding his barrel. Four years ago, when Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse voted against a $10 million aquarium for the District of Columbia-a pet Kirwan project-Mike simply...
...past twelve months than in 17 previous years, 250 Lansing workers recently won pay hikes and benefits worth $100,000 a year after a three-day walkout that shut down everything but the city's golf courses and graveyards. Garbage men have been on strike in Dayton and Youngstown, Ohio, and in Louisville, where one militant leader last week promised to hold out "until the garbage backs up to the heavens." Around Detroit and Los , Angeles, teachers and welfare workers have joined the parade...
...board of directors of the Harvard Student Agencies last week elected Frederic J. Gruber '67 of Dunster House and Highland Park, Illinois, president of HSA for the year 1966-67. Other officers elected were Robert R. Weller '68, of Winthrop House and Youngstown, Ohio, treasurer; and Richard T. Howe '88, of Greenough Hall and Melrose, clerk...
...growing net of federal highways will give them juicy profits. Also, inflation worries and stock-market jitters persuade some investors that land is a safer outlet. Heavy buying has lifted the price of farms near Minneapolis by 20% in the past year; land five miles from the center of Youngstown, Ohio, has quadrupled from $500 to $2,000 an acre in eight years. The city of Wichita recently paid $600 for cornfields along the Arkansas River that formerly brought $400 an acre, in order to use them as a city dump; other land near by with industrial possibilities is going...
...longtime Chicago producers, have major expansion programs under way to add furnaces and finishing mills. Jones & Laughlin will erect a ground-up $600 million plant at Hennepin, 111. (TIME, July 9). Bethlehem is spending $400 million on a 3,300-acre complex of finishing mills at Burns Harbor, Ind. Youngstown Sheet & Tube is laying out $375 million for a blast furnace and finishing mills at East Chicago, and Midwest Steel, a division of National Steel, has opened a new $115 million plant...