Word: cb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite police and National Guard protection, the truckers kept running scared. Many carried guns in their cabs and were in constant touch by CB radio, informing each other of the whereabouts of the roving caravans of strikers. Driver Roger Heubner, 30, had five of his eleven coal trucks burned in Boonville, Ind., in January. Last week he was carrying a 9-mm automatic pistol in his coat pocket. For Heubner, other truckers and the working coal miners, firearms had become, in effect, their union cards...
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...became known as microwaves. These "microwaves" are very intense concentrations, "short-waves" of electromagnetic radiation focused into an intense beam. They travel through matter, can be reflected by electrical conductors, and can be directed accurately. Thus, microwaves revolutionized communication. They are responsible for television communications, radio (especially FM) broadcasts, CB radio, satellite communication, radar, sonar, and electric garage-door openers...
Along with other U.S. makers, Andros has petitioned the Government for some sort of relief, in the form of either import quotas or higher tariffs. But CB sets were not covered by the U.S.-Japan trade agreement signed in Tokyo last week by Special Trade Representative Robert Strauss. Moreover, such restrictions are opposed by other firms in the industry like Fort Worth-based Tandy Corp., which imports large numbers of CB radios and sells them through its Radio Shack retail outlets...
...CB makers, however, are in so fortunate a position, and more are expected to follow Hy-Gain into bankruptcy. In April, Gladding Corp. of Boston, maker of the Pearce-Simpson CB brand, filed for protection under the bankruptcy laws, citing the same 40-channel switchover problem that wrecked Hy-Gain. Johnson American Inc., the CB radio unit of E.F. Johnson Co. and the largest U.S. CB maker, posted a loss of $4.4 million on sales of $10.3 million during the third quarter...