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...populous region of the state. Atlanta, Macon, Columbus, Augusta, Athens are the population centers, and snaking away from them along the railroads and riverbeds is the ma jority of the state's industry: the textile factories of the Chattahoochee Valley, the more sophisticated automobile assembly plants, mobile home manufacturers, apparel and food-processing plants. The Piedmont gives the state much of its new character?aggressiveness, prosperity, a willingness to homogenize its traditions in search of the economic mainstream. The North Georgia mountains have steeped a third element into Georgia. Life in the beautiful rolling hills of the Appalachians resembles that...
RALPH LAZARUS: I am not sure that the public is aware of protectionism as such or free trade as such. Certain businesses are hurt because of inequities or because of more efficient competition from foreign countries. But if consumers were locked out from low-priced Japanese apparel, if the supply became limited and they had to pay higher prices, you would begin to influence them the other...
...hopes for a 10-million-car year. But in retail stores, appliances, furniture and other consumer durables are selling slowly. Says Ralph Lazarus, chairman of Federated Department Stores: "The trend has not improved in big-ticket merchandise. If it continues this way, we will have an increase only in apparel sales this year...
Moving Backward. The Soviets have seldom lived up to their goals. During the 1966-70 plan there were shortfalls of about 10% in output of steel, electricity, gas and coal. The Soviets missed by wider margins their targets for television sets, refrigerators and wearing apparel...
...Trade: The Black Comedy" [Nov. 23], you say that the U.S. textile industry has never made a persuasive case that it is being badly damaged by imports. It is common knowledge that dozens of U.S. textile plants have closed this year due to imports, and that textile and apparel manufacturers' profits are the lowest of the major manufacturing industries, ranking No. 19 out of 20. The figures for 1970 show that the amount of Japanese textiles imported to the U.S. jumped 63% in 1970, whereas U.S. production, if anything, is down. Also, the year's statistics indicate that...