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Show Bits O' Business And Things To Come BITS O BUSINESS The cigarette industry, now a $4 billion per year business and looking forward to an all-time peak, will spend more money for advertising in 1948 than in 1947 ... More than 56 leading hat manufacturers combined efforts to design a New Look in men's hats, called the Scoop, a hat with smaller proportions and shape. . . Farm incomes are still at or near boom levels despite the grain price slide. . . Plans of the government gov-ernment to set up stockpiles of metals and materials have been held up to date because of the need for filling heavy current re quirements of private industry . . . Total paint sales of 680 man-ufacturers man-ufacturers reached the all-time high of $1 billion last year . . . Small town merchants lose about 33 per cent of theiv potential sales by failure to carry out sustained sus-tained advertising and . uelling campaigns in their local newspapers, news-papers, a recent survey points out. . . A chance meeting of two Army Air Force engineers started start-ed a company which is today building the first vending machine ma-chine to purvey a hot cup of coffee for five cents. The company, com-pany, which began as a shoestring shoe-string operation, is selling all the vending machines it can manufacture manu-facture in its Philadelphia plant. THINGS TO COME New 16-foot plastic "sporta-bout" "sporta-bout" boat is said to be so light in weight that it requires only one-third the normal engine power pow-er necessary for given motorboat speeds. . . The Western F'ne Association As-sociation has developed new plastic-resin sealer which makes possible the use of lower cost lumber for outdoor siding. . . A 10-cent cough-drop chewing gum is being Rested in eastern retail ' stores. . . Good news for southpaw south-paw savers a left-handed checkbook check-book specially designed for the convenience of fork-handed depositors. de-positors. . . Designed to cut roof erection costs by one-fifth to one-half, one-half, new roof fasteners which .can be applied from the roof surface, sur-face, eliminating the need for expensive ex-pensive scaffolding, are being introduced in-troduced by a Pennsylvania-manufacturer. . . Sandwich panels of ' metal, plywood, resin-treated heavy gauge paper and veneers are being tested for possible application ap-plication in housing construction. |