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FIRST U.S. TRADE SHOW behind Iron Curtain will unveil low-cost American fashions at Poznan International Fair in Poland this June. To ill-clad satellite housewives, Manhattan's Ohrbach's will display $600 wardrobe for family of four, emphasize synthetic fabrics with prices indicated to underscore U.S. bargains. Polish mannequins will model the styles...
...banks lined with decaying Victorian towns, its countryside a forgotten land of rutted roads, one-room schoolhouses, gnarled and feuding farmers. But in the past few years, even the most remote valleys of the Ohio have been stirring with new life as industry after industry has taken advantage of low-cost, coal-fueled power supplies, cheap land and water, and, most important, an untapped supply of labor...
...Dutch were hopeful of finding new markets for their low-cost agricultural produce, but in all the countries protection of the farmer is so deeply ingrained that even after the Common Market is fully operating in 1970, national protection will still be allowed on 30 agricultural products...
...exchange made an announcement: about Feb. 15, provided SEC agrees, the New York Stock Exchange will list 20 million shares of Catini, as it is known in Europe, the first Italian stock to be sold on the exchange. To facilitate trading, each U.S. certificate will represent five of the low-cost ($4.50 each) Italian shares. Said...
...guests in Calcutta's renowned Grand Hotel and forced it to close. As the onetime haunt of Britain's royalty and India's maharajas became known derisively as the "blackest hole of Calcutta," Oberoi saw an opportunity. He talked the hotel's liquidators into a low-cost five-year lease, although his total resources were $67 in the bank and his mortgaged Simla hotel. He tore out the Grand's rat-infested plumbing, offered typhoid-worried guests unlimited soda water even for washing, installed well-built White Russian chorus girls in the hotel...