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Another was that India's exports would prosper and earn more foreign exchange. They have not. In London last week there were whole warehouses full of unsold Indian tea. Increasing competition from Japan has prevented any significant increase in foreign sales of Indian cotton goods. The jute industry, faced with competition from Indonesia and Pakistan, is so deep in the doldrums that more than 10% of India's looms are being held idle in an attempt to maintain world jute prices...
...thousand one-night stands and red-lit neon holes from San Diego to Baltimore. In a Beat as Big as a bass-fiddle, tight-drum Hot America. In the dull roar and muted chant of the Juke Box Generation. We shall survive--and prosper. Man, you heard it here...
...study just released by the Radio Advertising Bureau: "The Negro market can make-or break-the sales programs of even the biggest advertisers. These 17.3 million customers are growing in power and influence . . . faster than the U.S. average." Though Negro stations were unheard-of ten years ago, they prosper today in every sizable city in the South, and in big cities up North...
...Vesey Street in 1859, George L. and brother John spread its power across the country, slashed prices by mass buying, produced their own products. "Mr. George," as he was known to company employees, anticipated the 1929 crash, signed store leases on a yearly basis only, and saw A. & P. prosper throughout the Depression, survive antimonopoly attacks, wind up with some 4,100 outlets and reap, in 1956, nearly $4,500,000 in net sales...
...United Press for half a century has aggressively sold its product to all comers. Thus, it has never wavered from Founder E. W. ("Damned Ol Crank") Scripps's belligerent belief that only a profitable news service can achieve editorial impartiality. The first major U.S. news service to prosper as a commercial undertaking, the U.P. today is the world's most enterprising wire-news merchant, an international giant serving 1,560 U.S. newspapers and 3,270 other clients in the U.S. and 71 foreign countries (estimated 1957 gross: $28.8 million...