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...Last week the London-Tangier diamond trade, which had enabled U.S. dealers to get gems for one-sixth under their London price, received a mortal blow. In London's Clerkenwell Court, I. Hennig & Co., Ltd., one of Britain's most respected diamond merchants, was convicted of customs evasion and violation of exchange controls. The prosecution charged that I. Hennig shipped ?76,254 ($213,511) worth of rough diamonds to Tangier and attached false invoices to make it appear that the gems were consigned to a Tangier merchant. Actually, the gems were bought by U.S. merchants, among them Manhattan...
Minute Maid Corp., one of the first companies to market frozen orange juice, last week became the owner of its own fruit groves. For $5,000,000, it bought 4,700 acres of orange and grapefruit groves near its three processing plants in Florida from Di Giorgio Fruit Corp., one of the biggest U.S. fruit growers...
...rang up $11.8 million in net sales, as against a mere $3.7 million the year before, and showed a net profit of $996,000. In the current year Minute Maid plans to boost orange juice output to 213 million of its 6-oz. cans, up 142 million cans from last year...
Divorced. By Boyce ("Peggy") Schulze Hohenlohe, 28, daughter of Heiress (copper) Margaret Thompson Schulze Biddle, stepdaughter of Diplomat Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr.: Alexander Hohenlohe, 31, prince and war refugee, who fled Poland with the Biddles in 1939, attempted suicide last September after his separation from Peggy; after ten years of marriage, two children; in Reno...
...C.I.O., which has frequently demanded a look at a company's balance sheet, last week for the first time disclosed its own, as required by the Taft-Hartley Act. In the C.I.O. News, the union said that on Sept. 30 it had a net worth of $1,480,313, "about 25? for each C.I.O. union member" in the U.S. On this basis, C.I.O. membership was 5,900,000. The union listed its year's income at $3,040,390, and expenditures at $2,883,215. It set forth that its net worth had increased $157,175 since...