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...Last year, on gross revenues of $112,149,302, the Times netted $1,652,392-a return of less than 2%. Of this skimpy profit, all but $348,051 came from Canada's Spruce Falls Power & Paper Co. Ltd., in which the Times has a part interest...
...distilling to the manufacture of surgical equipment. Operating tax free, dividend free and rent free in direct competition with its own citizens, the Government loses billions each year in the businesses." Once in business, Reagan noted, the Government is reluctant to get out: "Congress ordered the liquidation of the Spruce Products Corp. in 1920, but 30 years later it was still in existence. The corporation was founded in World War I to find spruce wood for airplane frames...
FAMILY-CAR MARKET will be invaded next year by International Harvester. It will spruce up its Travel-All combination station wagon-delivery truck into a stylish suburbanite station wagon, and will introduce a new Jeep-type, four-cylinder camping wagon...
...local shoe factory. There was never any lack of necessities, though, and in the tranquil years before the First World War, the Chase youngsters had a pleasant, homespun childhood. At Christmas the family went out in the country in George Chase's buckboard and cut their own spruce tree, decorating it with popcorn and cranberries and cheesecloth bags full of oranges. "Our Christmas presents were always things we were going to get anyway," recalls Margaret Smith. "Mother always got my clothes too big so I would grow into them-how well I remember that...
...blessing. "I have studied all the Olympic rules," says he, "and if there are any amateurs in America, they will be ours." One problem still vexes him. U.S. promoters, apparently expecting little from Liechtenstein's skiers, have asked that he bring Miss Liechtenstein to the United States to spruce up the scenery. "Where," asks the noble baron, "do we find a pretty girl here? We are a country of peasants. If I held a beauty contest, the Chief of Government would send me straight to prison...