Word: detroit
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Personal Taste. In Detroit, a judge said it was all right- legally- if Mrs. Grayce Milton wanted to do her shopping with Nokomis, a six-foot pet king snake, coiled around her body...
When he doffed his navy uniform, Gordon Kennedy, 40, a breezy storekeeper 3rd class and ex-milk company accountant, had the same ambition as many G.I.s. He wanted to own his own business. In Detroit he found a small, unprofitable dairy ready to sell out for $150,000. Kennedy rounded up some 40 veterans, handed each of them 100 five-dollar certificates exchangeable for milk & dairy products, sent them out to work their selling charms on housewives. This brought...
Then Kennedy shrewdly capitalized on a long-standing grudge. Ruggedly individualistic Michigan farmers had a scunner against the monopoly-like Michigan Milk Producers' Association, through which they sold their milk to Detroit's dairies-Resentful of the Association's sometimes high-handed methods and always complicated formula for buying milk, the farmers were glad to trade $75,000 for one-year promissory notes to help G.I.s. A $75,000 mortgage on the plant and 39 bank-financed jeeps completed the organization; the Servicemen's Dairy Cooperative Association was ready for business...
...Homer. When established dairies last December raised milk prices 2? a quart, Kennedy held the price line, picked up as many as 1,000 new customers a day until the other dairies dropped prices back. As a result, in a year the Association has climbed to seventh among Detroit's 28 dairies, and grossed $1,250,000 in 1946 (estimated...