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Show - w - w Bits O' Business Variety of retail merchandise is gradually widening. Even 1m. ported giftware, which has been scarce for several years Is reappearing reap-pearing in the better stores '. . . . Self-service laundries are opening open-ing up here and there. New York New Jersey and San' Francisco have them. They consist of a battery of washing machines Into which housewives can drop 10 pounds for 25 cents and can get clothes damp dried in a half hour. . . . Californians are trying their hands at growing glamour fruit; cherimoyas, sapotas, caris-sas, caris-sas, macadamia nuts. They hope some will become as popular as the avacado .... Manufacturers are suggesting early vacations for their employes In anticipation of full scale production by late summer sum-mer .... Fish consumption is increasing in-creasing in the mid-west. Last year Americans ate 4.4 billion pounds and the National Fisheries Fisher-ies Institute expects a larger con- -sumption this year .... Uncle Sam is now selling surplus on easy credit. You can buy a slightly slight-ly used factory for seven per cent down and the balance at four per cent interest .... The coal strike should begin to cut into general production any time now. The steel mills will be a-mong a-mong the first to close. |