Time Clock, Feb. 14, 1955

COFFEE PRICES will come down for U.S. consumers as a result of Brazil's devaluation of its coffee dollar. To boost lagging coffee exports, Brazil has cut the dollar-cruzeiro exchange rate to exporters 15%, thus chopping the minimum export rate for Brazilian coffee from 65.7¢ to 53.8¢ a Ib.

MARLBORO CIGARETTE (made by Philip Morris) is introducing a king-size filter tip in a flip-top, crushproof cardboard box which the company says took seven years and 50 patents to develop, and which can be re-used as a handy container for rolled-up nylons, nuts, bolts and...

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