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Bill of Particulars. In Chicago, suing for breach of contract, a food distributor charged that the Flamm Pickle and Packing Co. shipped pickles that blew up jars in warehouse refrigerators, on retail shelves and purchasing agents' desks, and moreover, were "less than perfect in taste, smell and coloring...
...gentleman across the table, a candy distributor, offered us a chlorophyll mint. He received dirty looks from everyone. "Naw," said one. "The kid wants a cigarette." Everybody agreed. We had a cigarette...
...short order Walt turned out four cartoons burlesquing contemporary politics, and sold them to a New York distributor. The distributor went broke before he paid off, and Walt soon did the same. But for six months after that, he tried to keep the business going. Some days he had nothing to do but sit and play with the mice that infested the studio. Walt kept a few in a cage in the office, and some of them became quite tame. One mouse known as Mortimer showed no desire at all to escape, so he was made a trusty, and lived...
DEALER RESTRICTIONS, by which companies prevent distributors from unloading surplus stocks outside their geographic areas, are in for a rough time from the Justice Department. Government lawyers have filed an antitrust suit against Philco for a clause in its contracts that gives the parent company the right to buy up (at cost) and sell back to the distributor any product that he sells outside his area or to an unauthorized dealer. Justice's charge: the clause eliminates competition, boycotts nonfranchised stores...
...machine tools, plus its own 55-acre plant at Nanterre, with 9,000 workers and 3,200 machines. Production next year is scheduled at 500 Aronde and 200 Vedette passenger cars a day, about 40% of the French market. The new Vedette so impressed foreign dealers that the Belgian distributor ordered 3,500 and the Swiss distributor 2,500 after the showing last week...