Business & Finance: The Duke Steps Out

H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor was a happy man last week. After months of hard work, he proudly announced that giant General Foods will lease from his colony the modern Grand Bahama fish-packing plant, give work to hundreds of the islands' unemployed.

It was all the Duke's idea. The 67,000 citizens of his island kingdom were getting along O.K. until the war knocked the spots out of the lush tourist business (main support of the population), marine parasites crippled the sponge trade, blue-grey flies ruined the citrus trees. One by one the...

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