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...cyclamates, ordered by HEW Secretary Robert Finch last week, might hit millions of weight-watchers in the waistline, but it is a real body blow to the rich diet-food industry. In the 20 years since cyclamates were discovered, sales of products containing the nonnutritive sweeteners have risen to $1 billion annually. An estimated 21 million pounds of cyclamates will be consumed this year. The biggest manufacturer, Chicago's Abbott Laboratories, figures that cyclamates account for 4% of its sales, which were $351 million last year...
Rumors abound that the pride of the merchant fleet, the United States, will be mothballed at the end of the year, when its annual Government subsidy of about $12 million runs...
...program would support the building of new ships "designed for production, not as works of art." Though Gibson agreed with the proposition that efficient ships can compete internationally without an operating subsidy, he admitted that the end of Government aid was far away. Last year the Government spent $206 million to subsidize the merchant fleet...
...building last week, somber-suited businessmen, workmen in overalls and pig-tailed secretaries jostled each other in the gold-carpeted gallery to watch brokers screaming for 100, 200 and 500 shares of mining and oil companies. One day, trading on the Sydney exchange reached a record of nearly 36 million shares...
...promising outcroppings and staked out the drilling site. The big payoff has gone not to Shirley but to his burly friend Norman Shierlaw, an Adelaide broker, who hired him for Poseidon. A mining engineer before turning to finance last year, Shierlaw controls 8% of the company's 2.5 million shares, an amount worth $6.5 million. Sitting behind a desk littered with empty beer cans, lumps of ore, contract notes and mining magazines, Shierlaw said: "Early in the week it was champagne, but we've calmed down a bit now. Back on beer." Meanwhile, his friend Shirley, who owns...