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Since World War II, Canadian newsprint prices have shot up from $61 per ton in New York to $116. After last July's $10 boost, U.S. publishers, who get 90% of their newsprint from Canada, complained so vehemently that the Canadian and U.S. governments agreed to consult before any new price rise. But last week came another piece of bad news: the Canadian government authorized an increase of another $10 next month. To justify the price hike, newsprint makers explained that at the time of the last boost, $116 in U.S. money was worth $123.40 Canadian. But since then...
...American League Detroit Tigers, also in last place (7-19), got a boost too last week, this one from an older hand. Virgil Trucks, 33, who had failed to finish his first four 1952 starts and had not won a game all season, pitched the major leagues' first no-hitter of the year against the second-place Washington Senators...
Another strategic metal which has been in great shortage is cobalt, vital for hardening jet engines to resist intense heat. Last week the ingenuity of U.S. industry promised to boost the supply of cobalt 40% by 1953. Source of the promise: a new chemical refining process developed by American Cyanamid Co., fourth biggest U.S. chemical company...
...only does Chemico's process promise to boost the output of cobalt, but Engineer Roberts says it works equally well with other low-grade ores such as nickel, copper and manganese (but not as yet with iron ores). Moreover, by reducing the amount formerly lost in slag, he says it can increase the pure metal recovered from scrap as much as 15% for copper, 70% for zinc. He predicted it could eventually cut the production costs of cobalt up to 80%, copper and nickel as much...
...Bigger Slice. In the depths of the Depression, when other businesses were going to pot, Keating streamlined his spatulas, basting spoons, kitchen strainers, etc. into atched sets with nine color combinations. Result: sales tripled. To boost his sales of knives, he put out sets of six or more in safe and handsome "holdsters"; his cut of the knife market doubled in six months. Keating claims he was first on the market with the gear-type can opener; now he has made his original model obsolete by a new one that opens bottles, punctures beer cans and removes vacuum caps...