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...bottom, the problems rest on two statistics. World consumption of coffee is increasing an average 500,000 bags a year; production, ballooned by a worldwide planting spree during the Korean war, is increasing at the annual rate of 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 bags. Hardest hit is the world's No. 1 producer, Brazil, which last year earned 61% of its foreign exchange by exporting 14.3 million bags* worth $935 million. This year, with much of the world's coffee selling for less than Brazil's rigidly fixed prices, the most optimistic export prediction...
After Post died in 1914, the company went on a stock-swapping spree. Led by President Colby Chester and Chairman E. F. Hutton (who married Post's famed daughter Marjorie and is still a partner in the Wall Street brokerage firm carrying his name), the company from 1925 to 1929 picked up many of the best-known U.S. food processors. Among them: Baker's chocolate, founded in 1765, which Postum got for $9,000,000 in stock; Maxwell House (for $46 million); Jell-O ($44 million); Birds Eye ($22 million); Swans Down ($7.4 million); also Minute Tapioca...
Decalog Rolling. In Escanaba, Mich., three teen-agers broke into a school, stole $71, embarked on a spending spree by going to an advanced-price movie, swiftly returned the remaining money after seeing The Ten Commandments...
...University continued its annual prize-awarding spree by announcing the winners of two more grants for academic achievement during the past year...
...etched in bas-relief-nearly flat characters caught in symbolic or merely arbitrary poses. The book is even shallower when it tries to be most profound, e.g., in suggesting that the major is the compulsive victim of his self-corrupting power when he goes on an irresponsible shooting spree to avenge the killing...