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Show Bits O' Business And Things To Come BITb O' BUSINESS ine pajama manufacturers are worried. Seems the average man buys only "one-third pajama pair a year." So the industry is planning an educational campaign, cam-paign, and also investigating the possibilities of making pajamas more comfortable. . . .The machine ma-chine tool industry is back in the news with good news. This industry, most talked-about of all during the war, was first to feel slump, but some officials think the coming autumn will see a sharp upswing in activity. ... It will cost the taxpayers $100 million for the planners to plan the $3 billion works program. pro-gram. . . .Better prices for poultry poul-try are being reported. . . . State of Michigan is expecting a bumper bump-er crop of apples, pears and peaches. . . . Inventories of newsprint news-print in producing mills showed a decline last month, but they're still above any month last year. . . . Plantings of popcorn in the 12 producing states are said to be 40 per cent below last year's acreage. May be lean eating for the kids in the movie houses next year! THINGS TO COME The appliance makers must be counting on many new homes, too. Each week sees new-model gadgets being introduced. General Gen-eral Electric announces two new ironers in the low-price class, one of which offers 96 square inches of ironing surface. . . . Arch-competitor Westinghouse is out with a new wringer-washer to retail for less than $100. . . . the same company has a double-duty double-duty ventilating fan that will fit into the conventional window or can be used as a portable circulating cir-culating fan Never having been able to put a keen edge on a stainless steel knife, your editor ed-itor is glad to record the promise prom-ise of a cutlery company that its new stainless steel knives will require no sharpening for three years. ... On the other hand, still another company offers a handy gadget to sharpen sissors. Well, it's differences of opinion opin-ion that makes a market. . . . Comes now plastic pouches for the better shipping of oysters. . . Television, which seems already to have everything, now will have a new picture magazine to serve the set-owners. First time we knew television owners had time to read. |