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...pork, which has long been selling under its retail ceilings. One big Midwest food chain cut prices on pork chops 10? a Ib. to 73?, planned another 10? cut this week. Elsewhere, housewives were loading up on the biggest pork bargains in months as a near-record pig crop (66,000 last week) came to market...
Coke, listed at 35-1 in the morning odds, recovered nicely after a bad start, and led the 374 entrants to the wire in the near-record time of 1:153. Gretchen Fruden took place money, following the winner home by three lengths...
Contributions from 233 members of last year's graduating class helped swell the Harvard Fund's 1950 receipts to a near-record $401,169, David McCord '21, executive secretary of the Fund Council, announced yesterday. The Class of '50 contributed a total...
Last week a near-record 470,000 went to the polls in the Democratic primary, gave personable Mike Monroney 201,338 votes to Thomas' 187,243. Five other candidates polled enough votes to force a runoff. If Monroney can win again, he will oppose the Rev. W. H. Alexander, a young (35), sidewinding spellbinder who won the G.O.P. nomination with 35,054 votes...
...rise again. The Department of Commerce reported that U.S. corporations will spend $4.48 billion on new plants and equipment in the third quarter of this year, a 3% gain over the similar 1949 period. Total expenditures for 1950 should hit a whopping $17 billion, barely 6% under the 1949 near-record total...