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...advance ticket sale, there was a tidy profit of almost $12,000 to underwrite the convalescent home for the next two years. There are separate and similar accommodations for English-speaking whites and still others for those of Mexican extraction. Last year more than one-fourth of Anderson's 4,098 cancer patients were housed in the facilities organized by Edna Wagner...
Margarine Substitute. To meet margarine competition, Omaha's Roberts Dairy plans to put on sale a spread made entirely of dairy products (e.g., butterfat, milk solids), but at a price about halfway between butter and margarine. Named Vadall, it looks and smells like butter, has only one-fourth the butterfat content...
...lose about 4?. But even the carcass (shrunk to 653 Ibs. in transit) is not all salable at the 42½? a Ib. the butcher pays for it. Two-thirds is hamburger and other low-priced meats that the butcher must sell for less than his cost; nearly one-fourth is bone, suet and fat, which must be stripped from the carcass, and brings the butcher little when sold. Only 260 Ibs. are steaks and roasts, and their prices must be high enough to make up for all the losses on the fat and cheap meats...
...Northern Canada (with $3,000 he borrowed), the newspaper business looked so easy to Thomson that he confidently told a friend: "I'll be a millionaire some day." It was an accurate prediction. At 59, Publisher Thomson owns a string of 18 dailies all over Canada, close to one-fourth of Canada's English-language newspapers. Last year he pushed into the U.S. by buying the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Independent (circ. 25,754), and this year he reached across the Atlantic to start the Canada Review, a weekly for Canadians in Britain and Britons with business interests...
This year, one-fourth of the passenger traffic flying between points in the U.S. will be by air coach, saving 30%. More than half of all transatlantic plane passengers are buying tourist fare tickets at the same saving. To cash in on this boom, United next week will drop six of its twelve regular-fare flights to Honolulu and increase its air-coach flights from four to eight a week...