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...MCGREGOR...
Before a Senate subcommittee investigating the 12% oil price increase, Florida Power & Light Co.'s President McGregor Smith testified that the price rise was the "greatest economic hurricane" the state had ever suffered. Florida Power alone, he said, will have to pay $6,000,000 more for fuel annually and must pass the boost on to its 600,000 customers; unless prices are cut, Congress should pass emergency price controls...
...average household spent $2,000 annually in 1939. In 1956 it spent $5,500, and it will increase the total to $6,500 by 1965. Thus, in Florida, Florida Power & Light Co. laid down what it thought was a grandiose expansion program of $332 million in 1952. Says Chairman McGregor Smith: "A couple of years ago we raised it to $410 million. Last year we raised it again to $435 million. Now we have set a new figure at $496 million. And that's just the beginning...
...indictment, Publisher Greenspun could thank Joe McCarthy. Three months ago, McCarthy's office sent the Greenspun column to the Post Office Department and asked whether the paper should lose its second-class mailing privileges for violating postal regulations. Later, said Post Office Solicitor Abe McGregor Goff, the Senator called and asked Goff not to press for criminal action, but to handle the case within the Post Office Department. But by that time it was too late; the case was already being pushed by U.S. Attorney Madison Graves in Nevada. (Vacationing at the Tucson home of Columnist Westbrook Pegler last...
...book by John Addey and Harvey McGregor does falter in spots, but the stickier lines lead into songs, and are necessary for shifting the mood from comedy to the romantic. Besides, anything that ushers Barnet on stage is forgiven many failings...