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...Electric Floor Washer. A lightweight electric floor washer that wet-scrubs floors and vacuum-dries them will be put on sale next month by the Hoover Co., North Canton, Ohio. Its motor creates a suction to pick up dirty water after the floor is scrubbed by nylon brushes. Price...
Worse yet, young Red "agricultural experts" set impossibly high production quotas for the communes, drove man and beast so hard that abnormal numbers of cattle and water buffalo began to die of overwork. As for the peasants, reported Canton's Nan-fang Duily sadly, "quite a few commune members were found not to care very much about production quotas." By last June. Agriculture Minister Liao Lu-yen found himself obliged to report that, so far in 1959, land planted to food grains was running 1,300,000 acres behind 1958-a fact that promised to cost China...
...dozens of local shows. He brings his own excellences to the outrageous personage with the slashing wit and excoriating tongue; saying and doing such things as the rest of us dare only do in our minds, he cantankers his way through the role like a bull-slinger in a Canton shop. And he tosses in lots of amusing bits of business--with fudge, with long-holdered cigarettes, even with his own creaking joints...
...businessmen with high-handed, independent business practices. Businessmen ordering goods were forced to undergo long,, pompous lectures on Marxism. Prices and offers changed from day to day at Peking's whim, and officials often tried to play one trader off against another. A British businessman who went to Canton to buy 500 tons of vegetable oil was told it was not available. Then he was awakened at 4 a.m., told that Peking had decided to give him the oil. The next day Chinese authorities sold half the shipment to his competitors...
...Chinese trade offensive has lost its wind both in the West and in Southeast Asia. In the first five months of 1959, the Red Chinese funneled $60 million worth of goods through Hong Kong to Southeast Asia, v. $80 million last year, and exports through Singapore fell 73%. The Canton fair held this spring rang up $79 million worth of trade; last year the total was $180 million...