GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Apr. 7, 1952

Tour Lure. To lure more tourists, Wyoming's Commerce and Industry Department last week sent out the first of 250,000 free copies of a 16-page color comic book sketching the joys and beauties of the state. The book shows an average American family on vacation—father, mother, daughter and son ("Daddy, stop!

1 see a bear!"). With the book, which cost $7,500, Wyoming hopes to make tourism, now the state's third biggest industry, still bigger.

Nickel Knack. Several Los Angeles industrial plants are installing the first of 1,000 vending machines to sell nickel-sized tablets called "Kevo-Etts." Four of the tablets, which contain sea...

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