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...wealth and partly for his excellent connections in the Demo-Christian Party. But the foundation of Nino's respectability was the fact that he was boss of the "Mafia of the Gardens"-the section of the world-famous Sicilian criminal syndicate that "protects" Palermo's fruit marketmen and citrus growers...
Like any threatened monopoly, the Mafia has fought back. Last June two Crime Incers who had apparently defied Nino Cottone's rule of the fruit market were rubbed out in the heart of Crime Inc. territory, a Palermo suburb called Torrelunga. And when Nino was killed most of Palermo expected that the next move would be a revenge murder by the Mafia...
...ease down on inflation. The FRB moved none too soon. The Government announced last week that the cost of living jumped 0.7% for the second straight month in July, setting a new record (17% above the 1947-49 level). Moreover, the upsurge, paced by bigger-than-seasonal rises in fruit and vegetable prices, promises to take another bite out of the dollar. As a result of the cost-of-living increase, 1,250,000 union workers will automatically receive 3? to 5? hourly wage raises under escalator contracts geared to the price index, thus 1) increasing the cost...
British-born Dr. Welch not only pioneered the nonalcoholic Communion service that has become standard in U.S. Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian churches, he also founded the nation's processed fruit juice industry. This week his Welch Grape Juice Co. will again make industrial history. The company (1955 net: $37 million) will be turned over to the National Grape Cooperative Association under a unique profit-sharing plan in which the company has virtually financed its own sale (for $28 million) to the 4,265 farmers who supply it with grapes...
...different inscriptions; production rose from 240,000 caps in 1932 to more than 42 million in 1955. Caps with Arabic lettering went to a milk company in Beirut, Lebanon. Caps with "Pida Pepsi'' and "Quaker Oats, Mucha Nutricion a Poco Costo" went to Mexico. Caps went to fruit peddlers in Vicenza, Italy, to soft-drink vendors in Caracas, Venezuela, to pickle packers in Pittsburgh...