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Alarmed by these inroads-even in Canada, artificial-tree sales will surpass $1,000,000 this year-Canadian tree growers are trying to retaliate with better, less expensive trees. Farmers who cut and sell wild trees for extra income are being edged out by large tree plantations, where as many as a million evergreens are mechanically planted, protected and harvested, then carefully graded by size and shape. To protect their trees, shippers have begun to wrap them in a new plastic mesh that costs about 25? a tree but ensures arrival in good condition. At Montreal's MacDonald College...
Climatized Clients. In Hong Kong, where air-conditioning sales this year will surpass $6,500,000, Engineer James Wu, 43, last week worked on a $2,500,000 third plant for his growing air-conditioner manufacturing business, the biggest in Asia. Wu's China Cold Storage & Engineering Co. turns out Weatherite air conditioners under license from the U.S.'s Westinghouse. His is a rare operation; nearly 90% of the equipment sold in Southeast Asia is imported from the U.S., where Carrier, Fedders, General Electric, Admiral and York have created a profitable market by shipping domestic units with...
...only six weeks, their movie, A Hard Day's Night, has reaped $5,800,000 in U.S. rentals. Ten million Beatle records have been sold, and the group has just attained its third gold disk (each officially designating 1,000,000 sales for a single release) to surpass Elvis Presley's two. Last week Britain's Electric & Musical Industries, the world's largest recording firm and the world licenser for the Beatle disks, also made a record: it announced that sales for its last fiscal year rose 12% to $265 million. The rise, said Chairman...
...qualify for the NCAA championships, the Crimson stars had to equal or surpass standards set by the NCAA track committee. Sophomore distance ace Walt Hewlett also qualified for the meet with a 9:01.8 clocking in the two mile, but has decided not to compete. Captain Ed Meehan missed the 1:52.0 mark in the 800 meters by a second...
...matter which of the Crimson entries pulls through, the team is very likely to surpass Harvard's previous high score in the meet, which came in 1961 here in Cambridge. If not, the scoring will still be better distributed, for Crimson points in past NCAA's have been remarkably concentrated in the hammer throw, a traditional Crimson speciality...