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Americans are also making increasingly costly demands on the food industry. They buy more and more frozen foods and TV dinners, which add 25% to food costs (but really amount to built-in maid service). Restrictive labor union practices contribute to boosting costs. For example, Iowa Beef Processers, Inc. would like to ship all of its meat butchered and boxed; since heavy fat and bones have already been removed, transportation costs are dramatically reduced. In some major urban centers, however, butchers refuse to handle precut meat. They insist on keeping the jobs for themselves, despite higher costs for consumers...
...American companies that might help in such a plan, "providing the economic course was feasible." Gerrity said that he was opposed to creating economic disturbances, but later organized, according to the testimony, at least two meetings with representatives of such companies as Anaconda, Kennecott Copper, Bank of America, Pfizer Inc. and Ralston Purina. The other companies were not willing to go along with such adventurism...
...from the Hermitage and Pushkin collections traveled to Holland's Kroller-Muller Museum. On April 2 a smaller version of that show with a few additions-41 paintings in all-opens at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., before going to New York's M. Knoedler & Co., Inc. in May. It is an event not only for the National Gallery but also for Knoedler's, whose chairman, Occidental Petroleum's Armand Hammer (TIME, Jan. 29) was instrumental in persuading the Soviet government to show these spectacular works...
...raised earnings by folding ABC into its leisure group, which among other things runs five race tracks including Suffolk Downs in Massachusetts. Noting the increasing concern of businessmen about the rapid rise in industrial crime, Ogden last year added a new subsidiary to its leisure group: Ogden Security Inc., which already has contracts to provide guard and electronic-alarm services to Polaroid Corp. and the Prudential Center in Boston...
...private carriers often hire housewives or students, for about $1.60 an hour, to stuff their clients' mail into plastic bags and hang the bags on homeowners' doorknobs. One of the biggest of the private postal services offices, Oklahoma City-based Independent Postal System of America, Inc., began operations five years ago. Last year it deployed 5,000 full-time carriers and 13,000 part-timers through 32 states east of the Rockies to deliver mail for clients who paid $3.5 million. The company collected another $2.5 million by selling routes to franchisees, each of whom paid...