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...just boosted all passenger and truck tire prices another 2½% to 5%, and the other big producers will probably soon follow suit, thus making the total price rise 15% since last fall. Reason: heavy demand, which has sent natural rubber prices up from 27⅝? to 35? a Ib. since...
...PRICES will come down for U.S. consumers as a result of Brazil's devaluation of its coffee dollar. To boost lagging coffee exports, Brazil has cut the dollar-cruzeiro exchange rate to exporters 15%, thus chopping the minimum export rate for Brazilian coffee from 65.7? to 53.8? a Ib...
Older than international bobsledding itself, Feierabend sleds have been bobbing down the chutes for more than 50 years. First built by Fritz's father, Carl, a peppery little (110 Ib.) character who took his last bobsled ride ten years ago at the age of 68, the sleds are no more than a flexible framework of tubular steel mounted on two sets of strong steel runners. Just about the only way they differ is in the steering apparatus. Most drivers prefer a wheel. Ham-handed Fritz Feierabend uses short ropes hooked directly to the steering runners. "With ropes...
...White House last week, President Eisenhower held a special luncheon for dairymen and heads of civic organizations. The purpose of the luncheon, featuring dishes prepared with milk, was to help the crusade of Agriculture Secretary Benson to increase milk consumption. Even though the U.S. expects a 5.5 billion Ib. milk surplus this year, Americans, by and large, do not drink all the milk they need. But the Eisenhower-Benson campaign alone is not enough to increase milk-drinking. The big reason U.S. milk consumption is no higher is that milk markets all over the nation have been saddled with monopolistic...
...given General Motors its record share of the auto business* looks as if he just stepped out of a Cadillac ad. His 5 ft. 9 in., 155-Ib. frame is usually clad in flawless blues and greys; at 61, his once brick-red hair and pencil-line mustache are grey, but his bright blue eyes sparkle like a newly polished car, his smile is as broad as a Cadillac grille. His voice is quiet, his manner calm. But under the Curtice hood there throbs a machine with the tireless power of one of his own 260-h.p. engines...