Word: much
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With peace, the Olins branched out into such products as rollerskates, flashlights and skeet traps. The newest product: a tiny battery not much bigger than a penny, for. miniature radios and hearing aids. Brother John figures that the new Cellophane plant will add some $15 million a year to Olin Industries' gross. Said he, with feeling: "We look forward with real enthusiasm to Cellophane...
...coffee. She was told she could buy only one 24-lb. case of Ib. tins. In many another U.S. city, hoarding housewives, having heard rumors of $1 a Ib. coffee, were hastily grabbing all they could get. Under such scare buying, coffee prices shot up as much as 25? a Ib. Last week the National Coffee Association estimated that hoarding consumers have already bought at least 132 million pounds more than they need...
Actually, there was not much cause for alarm. In the commodity markets, wholesale coffee prices had risen, 25% on news that Brazil's crop will be short because of damage. Many retailers had taken advantage of the scare to mark up their stocks on hand as much as 50%. Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture tried to calm things down a bit. There was enough coffee around, said the department, to prevent an acute'shortage. The National Coffee Association agreed. Snapped an N.C.A. official: "There's no question but that present excessive demand is entirely artificial...
...Parsons Sun, an ardent dry and a crotchety independent. The G.O.P. denied him renomination for governor in 1930. In retaliation he backed a Democrat in the gubernatorial election, failed to support Hoover in 1932, acidly advised Fellow Kansan Alf Landon in 1936 to stay off the radio as much as possible. A rock-ribbed, prewar isolationist, he voted for the European Recovery Program, advocated the 48-hour-week and the open shop, never ceased harrying the New and Fair Deals with insistent cries for economy...
...disdained as a last resort of the screen's has-beens, personal appearances have grown into a multi-million-dollar studio campaign to pep up a sluggish box office. Hollywood has learned that a star in the flesh can fatten a cinemansion's receipts by as much...