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Show TRILLIONS | OF DOLLARS | | | : ] | | | THE HERALD, Provo, Business Today Utah—Page31 Soviet-U.S. Trade Going Strong 1375 MOSCOW 1.355 GROSS 1335 NATIONAL PRODUCT 1315 along wit ndustr ndustr 1.2954 1275 ssium chloride among recent purchases And a lot of Soviets been buying ican products L259 [235 Westerner said one involved in trade between the two countries, “we want to 1215 leave thepolitics out of this whole thing “My positionis sell and buy. You want to buy, we want to sell. We want to buy, you want tosell. It’s the only way to run a business — 1.195 | || 11754 Soviet purchases from l the United States totaled 2 QUARTERS 3 l 4 1 1975 2 ij 4 | | a 2 3 | 1976 THE NATION'S ECONOMY expanded only 3.8 arlier de > Soviet this year that n nor en the between ation Special Deodorizer Shows Promise to Help Industry 106 ladium: alur some $4 for exhibit i the figures were than last year the Soviets haven't been buying the By LeROY POPE UPI Business Writer (UPI) formulation general delivery method for it Sprays en used withgreat success in recent years to break up the pungent odors that afflict hospitals now ippears to have a big future in homes and industry The product goes by various names membrane cartridge. Polluted air is and is being marketed by a number of the whole system Plastocon The company is manufacturing the some young companies, called system in units ranging from a home Neutroleum Gamma. Venturesdivision model to sell for $143 to systems designed to clean up the odors in in- chickens, $2.3 million in NEW YORK naticoils that was discovered40 It was first at Milwaukee of Will Ross, Ine., which has developeda totally new method of using it, calls it Neutrox Gamma ‘What delayed widespread use is non-agricult products that the stuff is so powerful a single in the first six months of drop can go right through your floor or create other problems, so for years this year Although that’s less nobody workedout areally satisfactory some $351.7 million in Seasonally Adjusted anal Rates | 1.155 ¢ i predicted 54 howeve cocoa butter; $80 says Jack D mountains of grain Bryson, Ve president neededpreviously Ventures worked outta method¢ of en In the first six months capsulating the chemical in a plastic of this year, th shipdidn't work at all well.” drawn through this cartridge or through a series of up to 35 membranes andthis breaks upthepollutant odors. It does not mask them. Ventures calls dustrial plant air flows of up to 20,000 cubie feet a minute. Bigger systems areeasily possible mil 4 million in yellow corn and $154 million in soybeans. TheSoviets also bought fresh 7 million in fresh or frozen lemons and $3.2 million in shelled green peanuts. In the non-agricultural sector, mostof the Soviet Thefirst industrial units have been imports from the Uniited installed so far in 12 different types of States were technical plants, including a sewage treatment equipment and heavy plant at Beloit, Wise. machinery 4 1977 seven per cent last winter and spring was ex- per cent during the summer, according to the Commerce Department. The third quarter slow- jobless Americans. (Detailed story in Wednes- down in gross national product from a near day’s Herald) UPI Telephoto. pected — but it was not healthy for millions of Pioneer Safety Razor Company | Tries For Business Comeback By LEROY POPE UPI Busnes Writ NEW YORK (UPI) — After the Federal Trade Commission ruled last February that Philip Morris, Inc., could not sell its American Safety Razor Co. to Baron Marcel Bich’s Bic Pen Co. more than 275 employees of the razor company werelaid off Prospects for the 102year old company, founded in Brooklyn but which has been in Staunton, Va., for some banks put up $9 million Its share of the seemed a forlorn hope domestic marketdid rise But 58-year old John R. and the state of Virginia from around 12 per cent Baker, American Safety $250,000. After considto 17.3 per cent in 1965 as Razor’s president, erable parleying, the theresult of heavy adver- thought differently. He Federal Economic tising but it promptly fell felt the company had a Development Authority back again when the cam- winner in the Flicker, its made a $6 million grant, paign ended five-blade dial-a-blade for the largest so far made American Safety Razor women, and that its Per- under the authority's aid never did seem to fit par- sonna and private label to depressed areas ticularly well into Philip blade business could be program. Staunton’s unMorris's cigarette, beer and other varied opera- tions. Unless Philip Morris was willing to pour a lot of moneyinto it next year, it looked as if American Safety Razor was doomed to continued years, looked rather slowdecline. That could have meant bleak With its Gem andStar the loss for Staunton of single-edge blades, the 600 more jobs and an $8 firm, which pioneered the million annual payroll afely razor, was a bad Even though America third in sales toGillette Safety Razor had preand Schick, and in the 17 tax earnings of $1.6 milyears it had been a partof lion on salesof $42 million Philip Morris, it had in 1976, finding another stood still in spite of fast buyer to step in and stepping national replace the energetic and optimistic Baron Bich economy made to grow. He also employment rate is felt that a substantial above the national number of menstill like average. the firm single-edge Gem The first thing Baker safety razor and his associates did So Baker organized a when they realized they team of the company’s were going to get control executives to take the was to start rehiring company out of the Philip some of the laid-off Morris fold. Between workers. Their next move them, they could only was to adopt a $2 million raise $600,000 to buy advertising budget for the equity, and Philip Morris coming year put a price of $16.75 milPhilip Morris, seeing lion on the company, feel- little possibility of an ing it could raise at least adequate return, had cut that by liquidating Safety Razor's advertisAmerican Safety Razor. ing outlays gradually A deal was put together from $2.5 million to in a few months, Virginia $800,000 a year Big savings on KitchenAid dishwashers, compactors and disposers. We've madea special volume buy on KitchenAid appliances, and we're passing big savings on to you. KitchenAid Load-As-You-Like Dishwashers. 3 DAYS ONLY 1545S. State, Orem 224-1542 OCT. 20th-21st-& 22nd 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. ; e T Bar-B-Cue’s : 50% All models. Built-ins, top or front-loading portables, convertibleportables, and dishwasher-sink combinations. 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