Word: cheaper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japanese admitted that Chinese underselling had "destroyed" Japan's newsprint and grey cotton sheetings exports throughout Southeast Asia, now threatened to undermine Japan's markets in soybean oil, cement, structural steel, window glass. In Jakarta, Indonesians were snapping up Chinese yarn at $390 a bale, $25 cheaper than Japan's yarn. In Thailand, Japanese cotton piece goods had been virtually driven from the market by Chinese prices, which were as much as 15% lower. Other Red bestsellers: bicycles, sewing machines and scented cotton prints. Even in strictly anti-Communist South Viet Nam, where border guards check...
Instead of cutting prices, many a manufacturer is pushing cheaper lines or stripped-down models to give customers the impression of lower prices. One reason for the lack of price cuts is that manufacturers' labor costs have continued to rise while productivity has lagged behind. Another reason is that manufacturers have held down inventories so well that there has been little "distress selling" to bring pressure for cuts...
Obvious Answer. New York Republican Taber, an old hand at cent-counting, argued that armed foreign troops can defend their homelands far cheaper and better than expensively armed ($3,500 to $4,000 each) U.S. troops. But such sound answers were swept under piles of Passman detail, 19 columns of it quoted from his own hearings. Despite the President's press-conference claim that, by his "understanding," House Democratic leaders would not make the foreign aid vote a partisan affair, they let Otto Passman beat down Republican efforts to restore the cuts, send the mangled bill to the Senate...
...Admiral and Westinghouse were turning out color sets with RCA tubes, but all have virtually discontinued commercial production. Says Westinghouse: "Color is apparently not enough of a novelty to sell." Philco, DuMont and General Electric are at work trying to develop a simplified "one-gun" tube that would be cheaper and produce a better picture than RCA's "three-gun" shadow-mask tube, but admit that success is not yet in sight...
Noisy Stampede. If color sets could instantly be made much cheaper (they cannot be until genuine mass production is warranted), the public would doubtless snap them up without waiting for more color programs. If substantially more color shows were beamed at home screens (only NBC plans to do so this year), many more buyers would probably surrender to the present high prices. But advertisers will not invest up to 20% more money for color production until they can count on a bigger audience...