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...whatever color or cut it takes, and despite the recent wild trend to leopard, mink is still the most popular of furs: last year's retail sales of mink amounted to $306 million, and 85% of all U.S. fur sales. Says Neiman-Marcus Vice President George Liebes, for the defense: "No fur is so flattering. None can be handled so well, none is to be had in so many colors, none can be so dressed up or dressed down, none can be used so many ways in so many fashions. Mink is in. to stay." In other words...
...current 52% rate to the 47% that prevailed early in the Korean war would reduce Government revenues and increase corporate profits by $2.5 billion-a whopping 10% gain for U.S. business. Companies would soon budget well over one-half of this for capital spending, says New York University Economist Marcus Nadler, and every dollar put to such use would turn over so often that it would add $3 to the gross national product. At that rate, a $2.5 billion corporate tax cut could increase the G.N.P. by some $5 billion...
...troubled history: Super-Swindler Ivar Krueger, who got control of the company in the late 1920s, sold off his interest in 1931 to Ericsson's archrival, the U.S.'s International Telephone & Telegraph Co. This evoked patriotic outcries in Sweden and led to the intervention of the brothers Marcus and Jacob Wallenberg, who between them head the boards of 24 Swedish companies with combined sales of $1.6 billion. Aided by a law that prohibits foreign control of Swedish firms, Marcus Wallenberg, 62, stepped in as Ericsson's chairman and fended off I. T. & T. so successfully that...
...read Blackstone voraciously, later took up the law. At 21 he was elected to the territorial legislature, then to the territorial senate. In 1912, when Arizona was admitted to statehood, he was a natural choice for one of the state's first two U.S. Senate seats (the other: Marcus A. Smith...
Carl Andersen. Early this year, William Morris, one of Estes' Neiman-Marcus trio, wrote Estes a letter suggesting that Andersen, a member of the House subcommittee on agricultural appropriations, would be a "good Republican contact" in Congress, and that it might be a "good investment" to help him out of a financial pinch. Shortly afterward, Morris took Andersen down to Pecos to talk to Estes...