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...folding camera, completely "built-in" save for a mike on a cord, has joined the parade of postwar dream-gadgets for the civilian. Powered by a battery, the recorder weighs only three pounds, picks up "anything the ear can hear." Inventor Marvin Camras of Chicago's Armour Research Foundation thinks "the average price ought to be about...
...this prospect of more beef failed to cheer dapper, brisk George A. Eastwood, 65, president of Armour & Co. In words as sharp as a cleaver stroke, Eastwood told Armour stockholders that total packinghouse production would probably drop...
...supply of other types of meat will be just as lean, Armour's Eastwood reported. Said he: "Our best information now is that we will have 30% fewer hogs than came to market in 1944. The lamb outlook is for a reduction...
Down Meat. Another example of high volume, low profits: the packers. On sales of about $1,600,000,000, Swift netted only $15,900,000- about i%. On nearly the same gross sales, Armour could not do even that well. Its profit of $11,300,000 was only three-quarters...
...Ambassador to Spain, Armour will replace a diplomat of a different type. A Columbia University history scholar, known to U.S. college students for his four-volume History of Modern Europe, Carlton Hayes had no diplomatic experience until he went to Spain in 1942. A front-rank Catholic layman who got on well with Dictator Franco, he was often criticized, mostly by the left-wing press, as an "appeaser." To avoid embarrassing President Roosevelt in an election year, he offered his resignation. Refused then, it is sure to be accepted...