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From the start, Britain has insisted that it cannot join the European community without trade protection for Commonwealth food producers, chiefly New Zealand and Australia, whose grain, meat and dairy exports compete directly with European farm products. Britain is asking Europe's Six to limit their own, costlier food production by keeping farm prices low. However, the Common Market nations would promise nothing more specific than "reasonable" prices, while Britain demands hard and fast guarantees on an issue so vital to the future of the Commonwealth...
...same caloric value as costlier dextrose, which many doctors prescribe. Dextrose, they contend, is better assimilated; being a powder, it is less likely to be confused with salt...
...power are more expensive overseas. Smaller markets and shorter production runs abroad also make for higher fixed expenses. It costs the H. J. Heinz Co. just as much to produce a can of beans in Britain as in the U.S.: labor is cheaper but cans and raw beans are costlier in Britain. The European worker is less productive than his U.S. counterpart because he generally has less training and fewer machines to work with. Producing a ton of finished steel takes 21⅔ man-hours in France and 17 in Germany, but only twelve man-hours...
...Milton Hershey's creation-with its broad green lawns, absence of slums, and sports events sponsored by the Hershey estate-"may well be the best town in America for raising kids." And to candy fanciers who do not find Hershey's chocolate quite as tasty as the costlier Swiss and Dutch imports. Chairman Hinkle has a businessman's answer: "In one sense, the best chocolate is the chocolate that sells best...
...books can make fine gifts. Herewith a sampling of costlier presentation pieces that deserve to be read (or looked at), not just given...