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...CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI To the staff: It is my great pleasure to announce the appointment of Vice President Zinc Savage, who comes to us from the SWAT division of the Philadelphia police department, where "Old Firing Squad," as he was known . . .; Out of paper; "The boss would like to see you, Smith. Now"; "How about lunch some time?"; Dictated but not signed; "That's a no-brainer, Smith"; "Does Mr. Harris know what this call is in regard to?"; Signed but not dictated; "Let's lunch"; Out of ink; Not dictated, not signed; "Ever free for lunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Monsters Are Back at the Door | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...thick-aired Thursday morning in Manhattan, Charlie Garcia picked up ten dead paupers from the morgue at Bellevue Hospital. All the dead were adults, so they were in adult pine coffins, which cost the city $32.90 each. The price includes a tar-paper lining and a handful of zinc nails with which to seal the top. The cheap wooden boxes were placed in the back of Charlie's vehicle, which is still called the body wagon, although these days the wagon is an 18-ft. Ford truck, blue and gray, license number 20898-E, with 106,892 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Last Stop for the Poor | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

...Western Industries; of a heart attack; on a company jet en route from the Dominican Republic. Bluhdorn arrived in the U.S. from Vienna at 16 and in 1955 bought into the small Michigan Bumper Corp., which he merged and muscled into a huge conglomerate (auto parts to movies to zinc) with 1982 sales of $5.3 billion. "Sometimes I'm full of baloney," the blunt Bluhdorn once said. "But sometimes I have a good idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 28, 1983 | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

...gave up. Bolivia, with an annual per-capita income of only $550, the second lowest in the hemisphere after Haiti, s an economic mess. The output of wheat and cotton is running below the levels of he 1970s. Further, production of such minerals as tin, lead, gold, silver and zinc las been devastated by miners' strikes, and only one of the state-owned mining group's 14 largest mines makes a profit. The inflation rate of 157% is likely to rise, foreign currency reserves total only $83 million, and by year's end the central bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolivia: Civilians Return | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

Exxon's cash squeeze has been intensified by management miscalculations in a series of unsuccessful attempts to diversify. Examples: Exxon spent $857 million during the past five years to develop uranium, copper, lead, zinc and molybdenum mines from Nevada to Papua New Guinea. But the company has lost $383 million on these operations because of the slowdown in nuclear reactor construction and a fall in metal prices. After investing nearly $1 billion in a project in Colorado to develop synthetic fuel from shale, Exxon abruptly suspended the program last spring. Exxon Senior Vice President Jack Bennett says the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Times for the Exxon Tiger | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

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