Mother's Day Candy Quality Up and Prices Rise
A survey of Amarillo retailers shows quality and prices of Mother's Day candy improving after wartime shortages. National brands push to reestablish prestige as demand rises for top chocolates like Stover’s Pangburn’s and Whitman’s, with increased allotments and brisk sales at stores and shops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Thompson
Amarillo
Stover's
Pangburn's
Whitman's
Cretney Drug
Dickson Drug Co
van A. Bruner
Pauline A. Little
West Tenth
Martha Washington
Sugar Export Control Tangles Candy Makers in 1941 Talk
A candy maker links chocolate quotas to sugar policy and export controls. He argues sugar exports resume government control and predicts sugar export cutoff by Mother's Day 1948. He claims candy prices will fall and quality rise due to competition.
Shorthand Pupils Set School Speed Record
Two pupils of Amarillo Secretarial School passed a Gregg shorthand test at 140 words per minute, the highest rate in the past year. Clare Schafer of 904 Jefferson and Loretta Reese of 734 North Harrison achieved the mark after training with Mrs. Bess Orr Foringer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bess Orr Foringer
Amarillo
Two Students Ready for Graduation as Speed Reading Skills Rise
Mrs Foringer notes eight months remain until graduation with a diploma requiring 125 words per minute for pupils and 100 to 140 wpm benchmarks for secretaries. A prior pupil reached 180 wpm. Both girls win gold medals from Gregg Publishing Company. The note also mentions 110,500 miles of trolley coach street car and gas bus routes in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foringer
Gregg Publishing Company
United States
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