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...completely has the company sewed up the postage-meter business-more than 95% of it-that its only woes are with the trustbusters. All the competitors gave up because P-B outsold and outserviced them. Last month P-B signed a consent decree promising to create competition by sharing with all comers its current and future patents, and instructing them how to make, repair and service the postage meters. Wheeler accepted the decree with grace: "We believe in the antitrust legislation and what it has done for the country. We hope other companies do come...
...horsemeat mixture. More dogs are fed by the dry foods-Gaines (General Foods), Ralston Purina Dog Chow, Alber's Friskies (Carnation Co.), Gro-Pup (Kellogg Co.). But more poundage is sold in canned "wet" varieties, which made up 65% of the total dog-food weight bought last year, outsold every canned vegetable, used more tin cans than any other product outside of oil and beer...
With Gray's own lucid structure and fine woodcuts by his hospital colleague, Dr. Henry Vandyke Carter, the first 750-page (3 Ibs. 4 oz.) edition was a medical bestseller. The British Medical Journal quickly called it "The manual of anatomy," and it soon outsold the much-higher-priced standard work. Quain's Anatomical Plates...
...anonymous Coop salesgirl says that last Christmas' most popular gift, cocktail sets, are being outsold by smoked glassware and electric frypans...
Gift From the Sea, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, outsold every other book of the year by a good margin, and at the 400,000 mark there was still no sign of a letup. The multiplicity and fragmentation of modern daily life were too much for Author Lindbergh, and her well-written cry of "Enough, enough!" obviously found a vast chorus of agreement...