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Business candidates are not the only ones who will have a chance at the Advocate's jackpot. Later in the year, a similar prize will be awarded for the best undergraduate literary effort...
...means "key does all." It was-coined by Saunders' fertile brain-the same brain that thought up Piggly Wiggly, twice made and lost a million-dollar fortune (and a pink marble palace in Memphis). Now a white-haired 67, Clarence Saunders is sure that he has hit the jackpot again. Keedoozle's lavor-saving, he says, will enable hin. to make 7½% on his turnover without adding more than a 3? markup to the cost of any goods. Says Saunders, who will sell Keedoozle franchises in other cities: "It can't miss...
...Jackpot. General Motors' second-quarter earnings were something. On sales of $1,145,000,000, the net profit was $110 million. For the half year, G.M.'s gross was up only 22% over 1947. But its net was up more than 50% ($4.55 per common share v. $2.97), thanks to higher prices and steadier operations...
Finally the Hal Roach studio cast her as a scantily clad cave woman in a picture called One Million B.C. She hit the jackpot. A pressagent nicknamed her the "Ping Girl," explained somewhat illogically, "she makes you purr." The money, the cars, the house, the. clothes, the adulation followed...
Died. Gertrude Atherton, 90, shockproof, indefatigable novelist and social chronicler; in San Francisco. She scored her first success in 1902 with The Conqueror, a novelized biography of Alexander Hamilton, later established her name with her historical novels and social histories of California. In 1923 she hit the jackpot with her top bestseller, Black Oxen, which described her own sexual rejuvenation by X-ray treatment...