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HELICOPTER TRAVEL will get a boost from New York Airways and Belgium's Sabena Airlines. Inter-airport traffic in the New York area is growing so fast that N.Y.A., now operating five helicopters, will order seven new twelve-passenger, 105-m.p.h. Sikorsky S-58 whirlybirds, double its annual passenger capacity. To expand its local helicopter service between eight European cities (TIME, May 16), Sabena will order eight new Sikorskys...
SHOE PRICES are going up. St. Louis' International Shoe Co., biggest U.S. shoemaker (1954 sales: $246.8 million), will boost wholesale prices as much as 5% because of rising labor and material costs, consumer demand for more varied styles. Other big manufacturers will soon follow suit, increasing retail prices as much as $1 per pair...
PIGGYBACK SHIPPING will get a big boost from the Office of Defense Mobilization. ODM has set an expansion goal of 25 "roll-on, roll-off" oceangoing vessels to be used to ferry either trailer trucks or railroad freight cars, will grant fast tax write-offs to firms building the ships until Dec. 31, 1956. Three shipping companies have already signed up to build five ships worth $14.5 million...
...cotton's problems, as Benson sees it, is to work out a more flexible support program, under which the Department of Agriculture could lower the price-support level when it saw fit. Benson thinks that a flexible formula would drop prices with a minimum of pain, boost the U.S. in world markets, help clear out the Government's surplus stocks...
...young D'Arcy Advertising Co. of St. Louis welcomed a new account: a small soft-drink manufacturer. In the next 49 years, the agency made Coca-Cola's name and "The Pause that Refreshes" known around the world, helped boost yearly sales to $200 million. Last week Coke and D'Arcy parted; the $15 million-a-year account was given to Manhattan's McCann-Erickson agency...