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...Previously secret fiscal details, produced after an ultimatum from the Commons, showed that the CBC made a profit on only 17 of 102 shows produced during a typical March week. Largest subsidy-wherein only $9,678 of the total cost of $30,132 was paid by sponsors-went to a Canadian version of the longtime U.S. radio and TV Hit Parade show...
...Bunche's home. But when Ralph Bunche, a Negro, tried to arrange the light-skinned lad's membership with the club's president, a Manhattan public relations man named Wilfred Burglund, he got a blackball response: the biggest tennis club in the U.S.'s largest Negro community, the world's biggest Jewish community, excludes both Negroes and Jews. What's more, Burglund told Bunche, the admission of Ralph Jr. would mean the resignation of at least 200 of the club's members. "Neither I nor my son regards it as a hardship...
This year's chorus is the largest in the history of the Summer School...
...which rose $25 million (to a total of $850 million) even in the war year of 1958, has virtually stopped. ¶ Tourism, such a bright prospect that three big new hotels opened for the 1957-58 season, is nearly dead, with 60% to 80% of the rooms empty. The largest hotels are running up to $100,000 a month in the red; Havana-Miami airlines traffic...
BIGGEST ANTITRUST WAR of the year will be waged against food industry giants, for gobbling up smaller companies. FTC complains that supermarket chains have acquired 1,678 stores in past four years (v. only 560 stores in six years before that). Eight of FTC's largest merger cases involve groups of supermarkets, dairies or food processors. Among them: Kroger, National Tea, National Dairy, Borden, Pillsbury...