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...some $20 million stripping off the overburden, constructing ore-loading docks at Picton, 64 miles to the south, and building a mill at the mine site to convert the low-grade (37.5%) ore to pellets testing 65% iron. With ready access to rail transport (through a specially built C.N.R. spur) and a 211-mile water haul through Lake Ontario, the mine emerged as an economical source of ore for Bethlehem's Lackawanna plant, near Buffalo...
...large cut in military spending enabled the Administration to cut total outlays, it would undoubtedly follow the same policy it did after Korea: cut taxes by as much as, or a little more than the cut in Government spending, thus spur consumer spending...
...Dallas spur is short when measured against the great era of railroad building. But it is a small indication of the aggressive railroading for which the Santa Fe has been famed ever since the first seven-mile stretch was laid near Topeka almost 100 years ago. By always reaching out for new customers, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway...
Easing Burdens. The answer, said Butler, is yes. "The sheer burden of taxation is far too great. Some further lightening of the load is needed to give industry the spur to be more competitive." With a surplus in the Treasury of more than $1 billion. Butler lightened Britain's heavy tax load for this year by $375 million. His chief tax cuts...
Sponsored by the city of New Orleans and TIME Inc., the idea got its first big boost after last year's Rio Conference where Latin American hopes for U.S. Government loans so greatly overshadowed private economic cooperation that little was accomplished. But in New Orleans, under the spur of Shipping Tycoon (Mississippi Shipping Co.) Rudolf S. Hecht, chairman of the city's trade-minded International House, private businessmen were eager to carry the ball. The Latin American delegations came prepared with a 50-page prospectus of more than 300 specific projects in their home countries to show...