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Nest Eggs. Last week, the society sold the refrigerator plant to Cedar Rapids Manufacturer Howard Hall and half a dozen associates, for $1,100,000 plus outstanding accounts receivable, bringing the total to about $1,750,000. Why? Storekeeper William H. Zuber summed it up: "Too many eggs in one basket." With 40-50% of its total income coming from refrigerator sales, Amana feared that it might go broke if the bottom dropped out of the refrigerator market. And the expense of keeping up with high-powered competition ($300,000 to tool up for a new line) seemed like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COOPERATIVES: Too Much Prosperity | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

Radcliffe's Cedar Hill Conference will be February 13 rather than January 13, as was reported in yesterday's CRIMSON...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Erratum | 1/11/1950 | See Source »

Yesterday's Council also voted to hold a mid-year Cedar Hill Conference at 7 p.m. Friday in Cabot Hall to discuss general policy for the coming term with members of the 'Cliffe administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Drumbeats Concert Revived By 'Cliffe Council | 1/10/1950 | See Source »

When Pratt Segmiller isn't running a filling station in Marysvale (pop. 600), Utah, he hunts rocks. One day, while prospecting around the sage and cedar-covered mountains northeast of Marysvale, he found some strange yellow-colored rocks strewn over a surface of about 60 acres. Segmiller thought they might be valuable, so he staked a claim and called the Vanadium Corp. of America. When it inspected the claim; it got pretty excited and leased the land from Segmiller. The yellow rocks were autunite, a uranium-bearing ore, and the strike looked like the most promising yet made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: The Yellow Rocks | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Into Killian's department store in Cedar Rapids, Iowa last week bustled thousands of women to get something for nothing. The "something" was a small orchid. In three days, Killian's gave away 10,000, and pushed sales 53% above normal volume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Blossom Boom | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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