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While lower commodity prices have been a boon to Hershey, they have also been a boon to chocolate-eaters. The Hershey bar has been getting fatter. In 1929 the 5¢ almond bar weighed 1 oz., in 1930 1¼ oz., lately 1? oz. The 10¢ milk bar which was 2 oz. in 1929 has been fattened to 4 oz. This largess was no attempt to ballyhoo. In 1909 Hershey Corp. advertised in newspapers and on billboards. That was the only advertising it has ever done...
Indigent, remote and preacherless churches have been promised a boon in the talking cinema. Year ago the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education got up a cinema service, performed by Presbyterian leaders (TIME, Jan. 26). For commercial purposes last week RCA Photophone Inc. dangled enticing names before U. S. congregations, releasing a nonsectarian. 25-min. evening church service. To a Manhattan studio preview went local churchmen, there to see & hear: Dr. Daniel Alfred ("Dan") Poling, famed Dry crusader, kinetic leader of U. S. youth, editor-in-chief of The Christian Herald; Dr. Charles Rosenbury Erdman of Princeton's First Presbyterian...
...Calumet's presidency after protesting against the deal, its consummation seemed certain. But not until last week were the two directorates able to come to terms. The merger will be effected by an exchange of stock on a ratio which, at prices prior to the announcement, was a boon to Calumet's shareholders. They will receive 3¼ shares of Phelps Dodge for one of Calumet, also a special $2.50 dividend. July 1 prices were $15¼ for Phelps, $35¼ for Calumet. After taking in Calumet's $84,000,000 assets Phelps Dodge will...
Textiles, Inc. While throughout the U. S. National Cotton Week was proving a boon to the cotton-textile industry, apparently one of the first trades to start regaining its composure, stockholders of 14 textile plants voted to merge. Most of the plants are in Gaston County, N. C. They control 300,000 spindles.* The new company will be Textiles, Inc., with a capitalization of $17,500,000. Expected to be its president is Albert G. Myers...
...flung regions of New Hampshire, to be exact, and was engrossed in taking a vacation. Business was a bit slack, so he wired his old friend, Dr. Hu Flung Huey, the able prognosticator, to come out of his mysterious retreat.... its whereabouts are known only to the Vagabond, his boon companion.... and off they went to the upper reaches of the White Mountains...