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...same. Within a year, Raytheon had introduced the first commercial microwave oven--a clunky, 750-lb. thing that required plumbing to prevent overheating but that managed nonetheless to do the job: heat food by electromagnetically stimulating the water, fat and sugar molecules within it. It was 20 years before Amana introduced a household model, and even then consumers--fearing everything from sterility to brain damage from the unfortunately named "Radarange"--gave the gadget a pass...
...have been quite so exciting as the Olympics, but the World Agriculture Exposition held in Amana, Iowa, last month commanded exhaustive coverage from the country's newest television broadcast service: RFD-TV, a 24- hour satellite channel aimed at farmers. The service, named after the old postal term rural free delivery, broadcast live from the expo for 16 hours...
David Bowie: Tonight (EMI/America). Cool, however, is meant to be the core of David Bowie, as if he were some sort of Amana appliance. This new record has fielded one of Bowie's most infectious Top Ten hits, Blue Jean, but the album has taken some hard knocks for being less a fresh direction than a kind of holding pattern that is good for dancing. Indeed, several of the songs are vintage items from the portfolio of Bowie's pal Iggy Pop; one is a nifty old Leiber and Stoller tune; and another is an unlikely remake...
...Raytheon ads stated that the company's Amana air conditioner "takes only minutes to go from carton to cooling." The only evidence it gave the FTC was a copy of the installation manual and an admission that the length of time it would take to put in the air conditioner could "vary from person to person...
...efficient U.S. coal industry still undersells European coal right in Europe. Though most of the U.S. exports are sought because they are clearly superior in performance, an increasing amount is sold because much of the rest of the world can now afford U.S. luxuries; Iowa's Amana Refrigeration Co. reported a 50% first-quarter export gain, chiefly on the sales abroad of its air conditioners...