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When New York City officials urged housewives to buy substitutes, they found flounder up 10? a pound, salmon up 8?, eggs up 2?. Dun & Bradstreet's wholesale price index of 31 foods jumped 3% during the week to an alltime high of $7.36. The way things were going, some economists predicted that by year's end the U.S. would find its cost of living up another...
Million-Dollar Blossom. Manhattan's Macy's, pushing a 90th anniversary sale, had a $1,000,000 day for the first time in any spring season (its daily sales have topped a million 37 other times, during the Christmas rush). But retail trade generally, reported Dun & Bradstreet, suffered a post-Easter drop of 3% to 7% from the same period last year...
...Coast's old and famous Joshua Hendy Iron Works; George P. Baker, professor of transportation at Harvard Business School, director in 1945 of the State Department's Office of Transport and Communications Policy and chief spokesman for the postwar Air Coordinating Committee; Arthur Whiteside, president of Dun & Bradstreet and frequent adviser to Government agencies; Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt, energetic publisher of the Denver Post, onetime head of the domestic branch...
...Chairman Thomas K. Finletter, Wall Street lawyer; Harvard's George P. Baker; Publisher Palmer Hoyt of the Denver Post; Dun & Bradstreet's Arthur D. Whiteside; Industrialist John A. McCone...
Divorced. Ann Cooper Hewitt Gay Bradstreet Whitaker, 33, who once suffered national tabloid fame as the "sterilized heiress"; by her third husband, Mining Operator John Whitaker, 56; after six years; in Reno. Heiress Ann (daughter of Inventor Peter Cooper Hewitt) in 1936 filed a lurid suit (eventually dropped) charging that her mother had had her illegally sterilized...