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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eral Trade Commission recommended by a 3-to-2 vote that cigarette ads be altogether banned from radio and TV. The Commission specifically objected to ads that equate smoking with good times, and noted that in January alone, viewers between twelve and 17 were exposed to a total of 60 cigarette commercials, mainly on such favorite teen-age shows as the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and The Wednesday Night Movie...
Sales for the fiscal year were up 6.3%, to $734,365,000. The total brought Gookin closer to his heart's desire of a billion-dollar 1972 sales year for Heinz. More significantly, earnings were up 17%, to $25,274,000; of that total, 43% came from the domestic side of Heinz's operation. Wall Street liked the flavor; Heinz stock that was selling in the 20s two years ago was up last week to almost...
...varieties in 150 nations. The company sold so well, in fact, that it pushed British per-capita annual consumption of baked beans to 11.5 Ibs. -twice the U.S. input. Foreign sales increased steadily, until earnings from abroad represented as much as 85% of the company's total. While Heinz prospered abroad, it no longer seemed to pay much attention to a U.S. food market that was more stable, more varied and more lucrative. Gookin changed all that...
...Total consumer credit in the U.S., reported the Federal Reserve Board last week, reached a record $100.3 billion at the end of May-an average debt of almost $500 for every man, woman and child. At least part of the push to the new record can be attributed to the fact that more and more commercial banks, the leading sources of consumer credit, are augmenting their traditional personal-loan and automobile-financing activities by issuing all-purpose credit cards. Such cards, says an official of Boston's State Street Bank and Trust Co., are "what the public wants...
...assets: $226 million). From its coequal headquarters in the cities of Frankfurt, Dusseldorf and Hamburg, the bank has opened 650 branches across West Germany, adds new ones at the rate of 70 a year. Last year the effort to woo deposits proved so successful that the Dresdner's total funds increased by 20%. That $650 million growth was the largest of any bank's in the country...