Word: tropicana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hour before curtain, in the basement of the 1,100-seat Cort Theater, the kids assemble for a voice lesson under a maze of heating pipes and lighting wires. Take-out fried chicken, quarts of Tropicana are put aside. "Feel how loose your tongue is! Baaa, baaa, baaa," exhorts the teacher, an ivory- skinned redhead, hammering on a piano key with her index finger. The kids imitate the sound and start giggling. "Don't laugh at each other! We're here to learn!" scolds the redhead. Silence. Then a few whispers in Zulu. "Heee, heee, haaa, haaa!" sings the teacher...
There was the standard "Lucy wants to be in show biz." episode, in which she would finagle her way into husband Ricky Ricardo's act at the Tropicana nightclub. The writers wrote half an episode of actual sitcom dialogue and left the rest up to the Vaudevillean song and dance talents of Lucy, Ricky, Fred and Ethel. From The Dick Van Dyke Show to the Cosby Show to The Brady Bunch, the "cast puts on a show" episode has become a standard...
...shopping spree for consumer-products firms may be only beginning. Investors are already driving up the stock prices of a host of potential targets, including General Mills, Pillsbury and Quaker Oats. Speculation now centers on Beatrice, the Chicago-based producer of Tropicana orange juice and La Choy Chinese food. Beatrice stock jumped 3 1/8 a share last week, to close at 39 1/4. One reason: Unilever is rumored to be eyeing Beatrice after seeing Richardson-Vicks slip away...
Consumers will feel the pinch too. More than half of the orange juice, 90% of the limes and 75% of the grapefruits used in the U.S. come from Florida. Although this year's supplies are already secured, Tropicana, one of the nation's largest juice makers, is worried about next year's harvest. Says Spokesman Tim Clarke: "We can certainly expect prices to increase even more...
...Nestlé-Carnation deal continues a streak of mergers in the competitive food industry. Last month Chicago's Beatrice (Tropicana, La Choy) bought Esmark (Swift, Peter Pan) for $2.8 billion. Two weeks ago, Ralston Purina agreed to acquire ITT's Continental Baking division for $475 million. One reason for the takeovers is that business has turned sluggish as a result of the slowdown in U.S. population growth. Thus the easiest way for food companies to grow is to take over other firms. And as the Carnation purchase indicated, cows that are too contented may find themselves...