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...real driver of European growth will be technology. "Europe in its innovative drive is where the U.S. was three or four years ago," said Lipp. True, the technology stocks on markets like Germany's Neuer Markt and France's Nouveau Marche have been taken down hard recently in the global stock swoon, but Lipp calculates that 75% of these companies still have solid business models. He reported that American executives were also voting with their feet, and sizing up bargain-price European tech firms for acquisitions...
...Bavarian businessmen were closing in on the purchase of the late Jim Henson's Muppet empire--a $680 million deal that brought Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and the denizens of Sesame Street into the fold of their company, EM.TV & Merchandising. They were the toast of the high-flying Neuer Markt, a sub-exchange that the Deutsche Borse (German Stock Exchange) set up for sky-bound new issues like theirs...
...Scottish Bigamy Act (1551), few offenders are more frowned upon than "thame that maryis twa sindrie wyfis or husbandis levand togiddir undervorsit [undivorced]." Under the act, punishment of such culprits is fixed at "confiscatioun of all theair gudis mouabill of their persounis for yeir and day." Also, they may "neuer habill to bruke [never again bear] office of honour, dignitie nor benefice...
Three packers-Kansas City's Maurer-Neuer, East St. Louis' Hunter Packing and Omaha's Cudahy Packing -have already signed more than 100 contracts with farmers. Swift is reportedly planning to start a contract-farming program in Georgia. Feed companies are also promoting contract farming, since it increases the market for their products. One of the pioneer promoters of the plan in the pork industry is Kansas City's aggressive Staley Milling Co., which supplies feed to contractors of all three packers using the plan, has sent its men around to boost it at farmers...
...could have handled the press photographers as well!" Unfortunately, Truman's interpreter omitted the word "photographers." Next day Austria's press, keener on its dignity than many a pencil-clutching U.S. newsman who used to tangle with Harry, took umbrage. Growled a correspondent for Vienna's Neuer Kurier: "It [was] very unsuitable for Mr. Truman to insult the press of this country while a guest at an official reception...