FILTER-TIP BOOM, some 30% of all sales this year, will help push cigarette consumption to alltime record in 1956. After slumping to 368.7 billion smokes in 1954, during cancer scare, says Agriculture Department, consumption climbed back to 382.1 billion last year, will hit estimated 395 billion in 1956, some 900 million better than previous record set in 1952.
VETERANS' HOME LOANS will get help from David Dubinsky's International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Dubinsky signed agreement with Chase Manhattan Bank to invest $20 million (some 10% of union reserves) in VA home mortgages.
STATION WAGON for Oldsmobile, its first since 1950, will be part...
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