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...chain in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Just as women are sewing their own clothes, they are also growing their own food. Manhattan apartment dwellers are planting tomatoes in boxes on their terraces. Oregon's Chas. H. Lilly Co., a seed wholesaler, reports that an unexpected run on corn, beans and squash has all but depleted supplies. "You get the feeling," says Proprietor Walter Zenner, "that the people are determined to beat the high cost of living even if it means getting their fingers dirty...
...Corn Is High. Once USI gains control of a company, it ignores the acquisition. Explains Billera: "The guy is expecting a wave of shock troops from the corporate headquarters to tell him how to run things. Then he begins to wonder why nothing's really changed." After about three months, says Billera, "he asks, 'Don't you love us now that you've got us?' By then he is over the feeling that he is a nobody again. After you've shown him he is really running the company, he becomes eager to grow...
...famine in which we all live will last a long time," Riesman said. "To burn the seed corn is a mistake...
...wipe us out because we're not needed. Seeing ourselves as economic entities, we become one of the most potentially potent forces relative to the American economy. We are the margin of profit of every major item produced in America from General Motors cars down to Kellogg's Corn Fakes. We have the power to cut their margin of profit, which is their very reason for being...
...European securities markets, the publicly owned common stock in Corn feld's Geneva-based I.O.S., Ltd. has dropped as much as 50% in two weeks and shaken public confidence in Cornfeld's $2 billion mutual fund complex, whose shares are sold separately from those of I.O.S. itself. When I.O.S. shares were first offered to the public in Europe at $10 last fall, eager investors quickly bid the price to a peak...