North Dakota farmer builds Happy Joe’s to Middle East fame
Whitty, a former Shakey’s manager from Des Lacs, North Dakota, turned a $30,000 SBA loan into Happy Joe’s Pizza and Ice Cream Parlor, expanding to 150 outlets. Now he launches Cairo stores with plans for eight franchises in the Middle East and hopes to meet Egypt’s president at the grand opening.
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Bettendorf
UPI
North Dakota
Joe Whitty
Davenport
Happy Joe’s
Whitty
Middle East
Cairo
Egypt
Midwest
Des Lacs
N.D
Shakey’s
Shakey
Small Business Administration
Joe
Happy Joe's
Florida
Iowa
Economic data schedule shows PPI release Friday in Washington
This Week notes the Producer Price Index will be released at 8 a.m. Friday in Washington. At 1:30 p.m. Friday the Commerce Department will refine its December figures on unsold backlogs.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Cedar Rapids Ad Federation to host mini-workshop
Reservations due by noon Friday for a Cedar Rapids Advertising Federation mini-workshop on communication. The meeting is set for Tuesday Feb 16 at the Longbranch Supper Club with Faber Miller of The Outside presenting after a 5:30 social and 6:30 dinner. Kay Staab handles dinner reservations at 362 6373.
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Advertising Federation of
Cedar Rapids
Longbranch
Kay Staab
Faber Miller
Miller
Wartburg College
Bond calendar lists major new issues for Feb 8 week
Salomon Brothers provides the public sale calendar with several large issues. events include Administrative Management Society dinner at Elmcrest on Feb 8 with speaker Jessie Nagle on handwriting analysis in business. Cedar Valley APICOS meets at Longbranch Supper Club with LaVerne Wendt speaking on the driving force. upcoming bond notes include Ontario notes and debentures, Citicorp notes, Narragansett Electric bonds, Monroe County notes, Allegheny County Hospital Development Authority bonds, Farmington pollution revenue ids, local housing project notes, Celanese Corp Texas issue, Washington Public Power Supply System, and more, with various due dates in 1987 to 2012.
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Administrative Management Society
Elmcrest Country Club
Jessie Nagle
Cedar Valley
The
American Production and Inventory Control Society
Longbranch
LaVerne Wendt
Cherry-Burrell Corp
Monroe County
Allegheny County Hospital Development Authority
Farmington
N.M
Texas
Celanese Corp
Washington
Scrabble Puzzle Instructions and Scoring Notes
Scrabble style puzzle by Judd Fol Timl Directions require rearranging to seven-letter words with given scoring. Rows hide total limit of twenty points. Use proper nouns and foreign terms sparingly. Tomorrow Syndicate Inc. provides puzzle. solve for 2 3 word total with 50 point letter options.
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Judd
Bracket creep threatens 1983 tax cuts says economists
Two economists warn inflation will push many families into higher tax brackets, eroding Reagan tax cuts. They estimate that for a typical four-person family earning 22,500 in 1978 dollars, marginal rates could rise from 28 percent in 1980 to 37 percent in 1983 once Social Security is added, unless inflation indexing begins in 1985.
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Los Angeles Times
Washington
Reagan
Stephen A. Meyer
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Robert J. Rossana
Pennsylvania State University
Across the Board
the Conference Board
Congress
Industry sees 81 jeans sales of 600 million
New York based industry group reports retail jeans up 6 percent in the first nine months of 1981 with potential 600 million pairs sold in the year. Denim leads with 84 percent market share. corduroy 11 percent. other fabrics 5 percent. Jean Driscoll notes designer jeans hold about 3 percent of the market and diversification continues.
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New York
UPI
Jean Driscoll
Jeanswear Communications
Driscoll
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Ini
Judd Tate
Her
Bonafide
Iown
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Tom King
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