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...show is a treat far costlier than its makers originally estimated; the rising cost of the laborious animating process pushed the price of the average half-hour to $60,000, more than that of some top-flight variety show's with expensive live performers. Mainly for this reason, UPA was placed in a strange position for a cartoon company that holds the best possible credentials from TV advertisers. It still lacks the one thing to make its new show complete: a sponsor...
...Gulf of Aqaba, running through Israel. The big problem was Middle East oil, which supplies 70% of the European market, and accounts for half of the Suez Canal traffic. Perhaps the desert pipeline to the Mediterranean might be expanded. And new supertankers might make the long and costlier way around the Cape of Good Hope more practical (see BUSINESS...
...COSTLIER BEEF is in sight; choice grades soared in Chicago stockyards to $25.50 per cwt., highest since May 1955. With the 13 major feeding states reporting 10% fewer cattle on feed lots than a year ago and shipments down to a two-month low, stockyard prices climbed $2.50 in three days...
...COSTLIER COFFEE is in store, caused by U.S. competition for quality South American beans, which are in short supply due to rain damage. Most vacuum-packed brands will soon retail for $1.10 per lb., v. the $1.40 record set as a result of market manipulation in 1954. Instant coffee will go up about...
...Luckiest of all are the people in McKay's native Portland, Ore. They are supplied by the Portland General Electric Co., which counts on Bonneville for almost three-fourths of its power needs. Last year, when water was low and less power was generated, P.G.E. had to buy costlier steam-generated power (eight mills per kw., v. two mills for Bonneville power), and the state permitted a 20% increase in electric bills. With the prospect of more public power for private companies, these householders' rates should come down...