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...idea born in Chicago, cradle of the slot machine, is a whopping success in Illinois. Listeners play it with Mu$1co cards, distributed each week by Kroger and National Tea Co. groceries in Chicago, Peoria and Rockford. Made up like Bingo cards, they have five rows of five spaces each, with tune titles instead of numbers. As the studio orchestra plays its string of some 20 tune choruses, listeners are supposed to identify and check off the titles on their cards. First one to fill a line across rushes to the telephone, dials a special number, shouts: "Musico!" Any single...
...Barren's index of retailing chain stocks to the highest level since the August 1937 bull market. Such perennial market favorites as Chrysler, U. S. Rubber and U. S. Steel were forced to share popularity with stocks which speculators seldom bother with: food stocks-Standard Brands, National Biscuit, Kroger Grocery -even such a market bush-leaguer as Safeway Stores (third in number of stores, second in sales volume among U. S. food chains). Meantime steel, auto, chemical stocks bobbed indecisively up & down...
...Food chain managements like Kroger's, under its volume-minded President Albert H. Morrill, have been profiting too. They have started abandoning small, high-cost stores, concentrating on larger, more profitable units, also reduced prices...
...cheap process for making all kinds and grades of beef more tender was announced last week by Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute of Industrial Research. The process, sponsored and financed by Kroger Grocery & Baking Co., involves "hanging" the meat so that its enzymes may weaken and break-down the fibres and connective tissues that make meat tough. Ordinarily such hanging (to obtain a few very choice steaks) requires four to eight weeks under expensive cold-storage conditions. In the Mellon-Kroger process it is done in a few days at a temperature of 60°, a relative humidity...
...others: American Chicle Co., American Snuff Co., Beech-Nut Packing Co., Bon Ami Co. "A", Central Aguirre Associates, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co., First National Stores, Inc., W. T. Grant Co., George W. Helme Co., Homestake Mining Co., International Business Machines Corp., Kroger Grocery and Baking Co., Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., McKeesport Tinplate Corp., Monsanto Chemical Co., Sun Oil Co., and United States Tobacco...