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...highly variegated merchandise. His cheapest item is a 5? cork, his most expensive a $500 copper pot suitable for an entire sheep. Between these terminals is a treasury of the familiar and exotic. Prosaic pepper mills and soup bowls huddle with sophisticated croissant cutters and the French Cuisinart Food Processor, a $160 Rube Goldberg contraption for slicing and pulverizing just about anything. No device, no matter how arcane or costly, sits around for long...
...sections of the sugar industry -cane and beet growers and refiners -have made "very large windfall gains." For example, Amstar Corp., the nation's largest sugar refiner, has recorded a 221% rise in profits so far this year, and Great Western United Corp., the biggest U.S. beet-sugar processor, has raised its profits by a spectacular 1,120% over 1973 levels. Before the hearings, Council Director Albert Rees said that "the price of sugar is about 2½ times the sustainable price...
...race to introduce the first instant movie film, Eastman Kodak Co. last week took a quick step ahead of its rival, Polaroid Corp. Kodak showed off its new Supermatic 8 processor, in which 50 ft. of movie film can be developed in less than 13½ min. by an unskilled operator v. the 20 to 30 min. required by highly paid technicians using conventional equipment. The compact machine is roughly the size and shape of an office photocopying machine; only an hour is needed to learn...
...turn up first in television news departments, some of which are switching to super 8 from more expensive 16-mm. film, and pose a threat to suppliers of videotape equipment; tape is much costlier and harder to edit than film. Though amateur movie buffs will benefit from the fast processor, they should pause before rushing to place an order. The price...
...Gallos are the last major entrepreneurs in an industry that is being taken over by large, publicly held corporations. Heublein Inc., a big distiller and food processor, has bought United Vintners (which makes Italian Swiss Colony and Inglenook) and Beaulieu Vineyards. Seagrams controls Paul Masson and Browne Vintners. Brown-Forman Distillers, the Kentucky whisky maker, recently picked up the distributorship of F. Korbel and Bros., the big California champagne producer. National Distillers & Chemical has acquired Almadén. Two months ago the parent company made an offering of Almadén stock at $20 a share; it has since risen...