Word: doubledealing
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"Tell 'Em to Go Home." Kefauver's Minnesota excursion, on the other hand, was a sorrowful experience. His advisers, a handful of Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party outcasts, handed him impossible schedules, spent most of their time squabbling among themselves about how their candidate should spend his time. One...
Indio Muerto was explored and found promising four years ago. Anaconda quietly bought it, but felt little incentive to mine it: the Chilean government was taking a discouraging 85% of taxable income. Then, last May, Chile voted a new tax law that takes 75% of taxable income at the present...
Fewer Imports. The once profitable banana business, almost wiped out by disease during the early '40s, was rescued by development of a disease-resistant variety, and exports have doubled in the past eight years. During and after the war, Jamaica expanded its sugar planting and built up a $21...
The powerhouse behind AGE's expansion is Austrian-born President Philip Sporn, 59, a scholarly, hard-driving executive who started his utilities career as a lamplighter while still in high school in Manhattan. After graduating from Columbia University's school of engineering, Sporn went to work for AGE...
Since AGE is in the coal-rich heart of the U.S., Sporn is confident that atomic power will not be economically competitive to his company for at least 20 years. Nevertheless, he insists that the company must constantly "project, achieve, then project further." Sporn's own projection is that...