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Hershey, the nation’s second-largest candy maker, said Thursday that its first-quarter profit surged 20 percent, helped by a recent price increase and a reporting period that captured more days of Easter sales.
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A homeless woman sleeps in front of the window of a hair dresser’s shop that displays a basket of colored Easter eggs in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, April 21, 2009. Romania’s Orthodox majority celebrated Easter last Sunday.
