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...breakfast-table reading of many a hurried city fellow-such is the nature of progress-now includes not only the back of the cereal box but also the fascinating claims on his carton of chilled orange juice. With such prominent assurances as "100% pure," "no sugar, water or preservatives added," and "packed under continuous inspection," he is led to believe that the company president squeezed the juice directly into the carton with his own hands. Last week that belief suffered a blow that could set off the rediscovery of fresh oranges. In the Florida citrus industry's biggest scandal...
Germans first got a taste for U.S. cigarettes after World War II, when there was no domestic industry to speak of and a carton of "Amis" sold by a U.S. G.I. brought as much as $200 on the black market. Even after German cigarette makers got back in production, smokers still craved the Virginia blends, as opposed to the Oriental blends favored by domestic manufacturers. But because of the price, only the rich could afford imported U.S. cigarettes, grandly passed them around as a status symbol. The British-American Tobacco Co., which sells American Tobacco's Lucky Strike brand...
...pack (three or four bars of soap, enough clean underwear to last until New Delhi, black tie for state occasions en route). Hagerty, who took a dry-run tour of the route in November, even thoughtfully published information on the availability of American cigarettes along the way ($5 a carton in Karachi, none to be had in New Delhi) and-a matter of vital importance to deadline-conscious newsmen-the time differential between New York and each stop...
...student vendors plod up and down the aisles, crying their wares: hotdogs, peanuts, icecream, coffee and orange drink. Last week the Agency hired over 100 students as vendors. It is big business. Their vending equipment--tanks for the liquids, baskets for the other food--had to be purchased; carton after carton of supplies ordered; and the food prepared with either ice or fire...
...many a merchant and manufacturer have joined up in a new scheme to fool the customer by promoting a "manufacturer's list price." The manufacturer advertises a "suggested retail price," which is much higher than he expects the retailer to charge, tickets his merchandise or stamps the delivery carton with the inflated price. The retailer can then drastically cut the price, show the customer the price stamped on the original carton as proof of a huge bargain. One lawnmower manufacturer advertised last spring in a trade publication that his power mowers, which he priced in ads at $154.95, could...