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...sales in the past ten years have risen 64% , to $630 million, gas wars and short supplies of Pure-produced crude have cut earnings to a disappointingly steady $30 million. Plenty of wooers have tried the hill but slipped on Pure's fussy terms: Atlantic Refining, Petrofina, Hercules Powder, a syndicate comprised of Loeb, Rhoades, Allied Chemical and Consolidation Coal, and a group that includes DuPont family members. Last week someone finally seemed to be reaching the hilltop. Pure's board voted to carry on merger negotiations with California's Union...
...entire wing to his splendiferous Jubilee Palace so that Elizabeth and her entourage of 31 could be properly housed. Meanwhile, fire engines roared through town hanging royal portraits from every lamppost. The Emperor's lions, which usually roam the palace grounds unattended, were hosed down, dusted with flea powder, and chained tight to avoid embarrassment...
...Engineering Co. of Lexing ton, Mass., which has perfected a snowmaking machine that combines water and compressed air in a jet to make a giant atomizer. When the resultant droplets hit the air (provided the temperature is below 30°), they freeze into tiny granules that make a dense powder snow. With enough piping, twelve nozzles and suitable terrain, the snowmaker can produce an 8-in.-deep ski slope 250 ft. by 1,000 ft. overnight. If greater acreage is needed, just add more pipes and more nozzles. Biggest so far is a total of 85 acres, turned...
Search for Food. Since Lesch became president in 1960, Colgate has introduced such successful new products as Baggies plastic bags, Halo hair spray, Ajax detergent powder, and half a dozen others th#t now account for 15% of its annual sales of $800 million. Colgate is testing freeze-dry foods with a view to jumping into the food field, is searching to acquire a food company. This week, battling to regain the top of the U.S. toothpaste market that it lost to Procter & Gamble's Crest, it began national marketing of a white-colored, mint-tasting, fluoridated toothpaste called...
...Pont, a French immigrant who had studied gunpowder-making under Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry, the company got its start by selling explosives to a young U.S. that needed them to clear the West and defend itself. It grew huge a century later by supplying 40% of the powder used by the Allies in World...