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...both urban and farm areas, the Democratic bill provides for loans and grants to areas of chronic unemployment (so broadly defined, say Republicans, that New York City could qualify), to be dispensed by a U.S. Area Redevelopment Administration. Two revolving funds of $75 million each would furnish loans to spur industry in urban and rural areas; $50 million in loans would be available for construction of public facilities; direct grants (gifts) of $35 million would support a miniature WPA building program; $14.5 million is earmarked for technical assistance to communities and retraining of workers whose jobs have disappeared. (In contrast...
Primarily, options are offered to spur initiative and give professional managers a sense of ownership. Says Leland Hazard, director of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.: "The stock option is an invitation to aggressiveness. It gives a man the incentive to act as an owner-manager...
...Canadian Petroleum Association predicted that the new markets would spur a $6.8 billion oil and gas development in Alberta, British Columbia and the untapped Canadian North in the next decade. The Energy Board estimated that consumption, in Canada and by export, will have totaled 45.6 trillion cubic feet by 1990-when Canada will still have at least that much left in the ground...
...year-old peasant girl") was there, and so were the "Seven Fairies" of the Hupeh tea plantation, who had found a way to pick 1,102 Ibs. of tea leaves a day. "All sisters in our country," cried the chairman of the National Women's Federation, "spur your horses again and again...
Married. Jenny Ann Lindstrom, 21, pink-cheeked, blue-eyed daughter of Ingrid Bergman and her first husband, Dr. Peter Lindstrom; and Fuller Earle Callaway III, 28, scion of a Georgia textile family; she for the first time, he for the second; on the spur of the moment, before a justice of the peace at Elko...