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...lure of the Delaware Valley is threefold: good rail and water transportation, plenty of labor, and proximity to the biggest market in the U.S.-the 21 million people who live within a radius of 100 miles of Philadelphia. For Big Steel, there has been one flaw: it built at Morrisville with the idea that ore boats from its huge Venezuela iron deposit could come right up the river to the plant. But so far, it has been able to get only smaller ships upriver, with Congress holding back on the money needed to dredge the channel the last 30 miles...
...American Heart Association this week launched a threefold drive among employers, physicians and heart patients themselves, to convince them that many more patients should be employed than is now the case. A job, it says, is good for them...
...great oil boom has also churned up a parallel treasure hunt in the nation's securities markets. For investors, oil's lure is threefold: 1) as wealth in the ground, where its value is likely to keep abreast of inflation, 2) as the raw material of the new petrochemical industry, and 3) as the beneficiary of a "depletion allowance" which permits 27½% of income from producing wells to be plowed back before taxes are computed, thus giving oilmen a tax edge over most other industries. As a result, in two years the stocks of some...
...Bahau, heart of the rubber country in the central Malayan state of Negri Sembilan. Then, mission presumably accomplished, they moved on, at the beginning of this year, to other trouble spots. Last month the Communists emerged from their jungle hideouts and ordered Bahau rubber workers to strike for a threefold wage increase. Flashing six-inch spikes and bayonets in the workers' faces, the Communists threatened to crucify strikebreakers on the rubber trees. As a warning, they chopped off the fingers of some trade unionists who turned up for work...
This situation could be much improved, says Los Angeles' Dr. Lewis Warner Guiss (rhymes with mice). If all the victims could be brought to the operating table promptly, 25 times as many could be saved. The blame for the present high death rate, Dr. Guiss believes, is threefold: 1) cancer education has focused too much on the forms that are easiest to detect, 2) people go around for months with severe stomach symptoms before they see a doctor, 3) doctors are so discouraged by the poor outlook for stomach cancer patients that they do not prod them hard enough...