Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nationwide cement sales dropped 50%. ¶ Sales of small appliances, car parts and other necessities are down as much as 27%, while sales of necessities, e.g., food and drugs, just hold their own. ¶ Big, long-term purchases reflecting confidence in the future, such as automobiles and heavy machinery, are off 20% to 50%. ¶ U.S. investment, which rose $25 million (to a total of $850 million) even in the war year of 1958, has virtually stopped. ¶ Tourism, such a bright prospect that three big new hotels opened for the 1957-58 season, is nearly dead, with...
Instinct Alone. It was not over. The weather, good for twelve days, burst with a snowstorm. All landmarks disappeared; at one point they were near panic at the thought of starvation when someone spotted the blade of an ice ax that Jake had whimsically stuck beside a food cache, a needle point of steel gleaming in an ocean of snow. On instinct alone, Buckingham found the snow corridor that threaded through a region splintered by crevasses. And finally back down to 7,000 ft., they were plucked from McKinley's flank by their pilot...
BIGGEST ANTITRUST WAR of the year will be waged against food industry giants, for gobbling up smaller companies. FTC complains that supermarket chains have acquired 1,678 stores in past four years (v. only 560 stores in six years before that). Eight of FTC's largest merger cases involve groups of supermarkets, dairies or food processors. Among them: Kroger, National Tea, National Dairy, Borden, Pillsbury...
...result, the average worker spends far less, proportionately, on food, shelter and clothing. While he spent 80% of his entire income on these three necessities around 1900, he now spends only 57%. Clothing is no longer even one of the Big Three. The average worker's family spends a seventh of its income on transportation -mostly on the family car-only a ninth on its backs. It gets considerably more use for its money; e.g., the average scrapping age of automobiles rose from 6½ years in 1925 to 13 in 1955, largely offsetting the increase...
...High Voltage now builds giant (three stories high) particle accelerators that can sterilize materials by firing a stream of electrons through them. The accelerators are also used for high-energy physics studies and for breaking down chromosomes to study their properties, may soon be used commercially to irradiate food so that it will keep for years without refrigeration. High Voltage is also working with B. F. Goodrich Co. on ion-propulsion engines for spaceships. Its expected sales this year...