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Will the first great test of Jimmy Carter's anti-inflation guidelines be posed by candy bars? At his press conference last week, the President was asked if he would "put the bite on" Hershey Foods Corp. for raising the prices of its chocolate bars, peanut cups, candy kisses and other products an average of about 9%. Carter solemnly replied that if the increase did indeed exceed his standards, he would "disapprove it strongly. We do have some persuasion that we can exercise...
...Rice Hershey...
Seriously, new candy bars or fad-type sweets have little chance of making it in the nougat-and-caramel world. Parents buy their kids the bars they used to eat as children, and that's why Milky Way, Snickers, Nestles' Crunch, Mounds, Almond Joy and the Hershey Bar are still the kingpins. The ten most popular candy bars in the United States are the same today as they were 25 years ago, although price and size have gone up and down, respectively...
...remember a time when gas was gas and coal was coal, and the word energy described Ray Bolger's dancing, what Hershey bars give quickly and a quality some admirable folks have more of than others...
Died. General Lewis Blaine Hershey, 83, director of the Selective Service (1941-70), who supervised the draft of 14.5 million Americans; in Angola, Ind. Hershey enlisted in the Indiana National Guard in 1911, went to France with an Army artillery unit in World War I and later became a member of the Army-Navy committee that laid the groundwork for the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. A target of antiwar protesters during the Viet Nam War, he countered by calling them "enemies of the U.S." and urging draft boards to step up their induction. While instituting the draft...