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Licensed fragrances are one way to ensure more image control and power for stars: Jennifer Lopez's fragrance, Glow, rakes in more than $100 million a year for Coty, which has just launched a scent linked to Desperate Housewives, Forbidden Fruit???either a stroke of marketing genius or a sure sign of the apocalypse. Elizabeth Arden, which has turned an enormous profit on the bulletproof Elizabeth Taylor White Diamonds fragrance, introduced Britney Spears' scent, Curious?the No. 1 fragrance launch in 2004-05?and plans to present new products from Hilary Duff and, in an interesting turn, Danielle Steel...
...front cover**) In Chicago last week the Federal Farm Board bore its first fruit???a 20 million dollar grain marketing corporation. Still minus a wheat member and without Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde who was kept away by many another official duty, the Board journeyed westward from Washington to meet 52 officials of farmers' grain elevators, cooperatives, pools and marketing agencies, representative of 650,000 grain-growers.' At the Sherman Hotel behind closed doors a harmony meeting was held from which Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa was politely ushered out despite his political plea of representing "all farmers...
...Still Life"?a bottle of wine, a bit of cheese, a dish of fruit???was damaged. Jean Louis Forain, of Paris, had painted it 50 years ago, lived with it, domesticated it. Sardonic, he had refused all prices for it. But gentle Homer Saint-Gaudens of Pittsburgh had won permission to exhibit the picture. Old Forain let it travel to the Carnegie International Exhibition, Manhattan...
...however, with United Fruit??? a Boston enterprise with Boston capital, Boston management. This company last year had a total income of $27,218,020 against $22,561,549 the year before. After all charges and estimated Federal taxes, the net for 1923 was $23,097,330, or $23.09 on each share of the $100,000,000 of common stock outstanding. In 1922, net income was $18,851,318, or $18.85 per common share. Last year the Company paid out $10,000,000 in dividends, and set aside a like sum for dividends in 1924, carrying only $3,097,330 over...
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