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The moment it landed in Liverpool, Paul J. Tusek's 1906-model Stanley Steamer turned the first Anglo-American Vintage Car Rally into a private competition with calamity. Like most antique cars, the "Stanley Gentlemen's Speedy Roadster" showed some stubborn and u predictable quirks. Its temperamental burners...
For that, FTC blamed big speculators on the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange. Caught in the squeeze, five big U.S. roasters (General Foods, A. & P., Hills Brothers, Standard Brands, and J. A. Folger & Co.) started buying coffee to guard against future shortages and still higher prices. Result: prices soared...
Lightning laced the sky at Pekin, Ill. (pop. 22,000) one night last week as a thunderstorm rolled over American Distilling Co.'s plant outside town. At 2:30 a.m., a lightning bolt crackled into a rack house full of 100-proof whisky and started a fire that quickly...
Schwerin cites one example of a typical TV drama about a-young married couple in which the husband is the bumbling idiot. A coffee commercial at the end of the program declared that the head of the household knows best about coffee brands, and pictured a pleased father drinking the...
Duttweiler's successful price-cutting has frequently brought trouble from his cartel-minded competitors. But "Dutti," as he is fondly known to his customers, was never fazed by that. When manufacturers of standard brands refused to sell to his cut-rate "Migros" (like demigros, i.e., semi-wholesale) stores, he...