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Paying Its Way. The boom is fathered by increased U.S. spending, but it is mothered by smart marketing. The industry has steadily brought down prices (current range: $225 to $375 per ton for central units in new houses) while putting out more compact, smoother-operating products every year. Thanks to miniaturization, the 1959 models of Admiral, Carrier and others are 50% to 60% smaller than in 1956. General Electric claims that one of its 1959 bedroom models is virtually noiseless. Westinghouse, Fedders, Emerson are putting out install-it-your-self "portable" models. York is packaging parts needed for installation with...
This translation of the article has been made in order to give English speaking readers a chance to inspect a compact but rich and skillfully presented array of negative images and ideas about America. The article is a particularly powerful one because it presents America in the most concrete form, that is, in specific episodes and in the words and actions of actual organizations and individual Americans who are identified by name...
...first step, he promised to request the island legislature to pass a resolution asking the U.S. Congress to grant whatever status the Puerto Rican people may choose in a plebiscite. Muñoz' proposal seems to be the proper start: U.S.-Puerto Rico relations are regulated by a compact that can be changed only by mutual consent. It also set the stage for a hot argument in Congress about whether the U.S. should commit itself flatly in advance to accept the decision of the Puerto Rican electorate...
...explanations for the loss of the U.S. competitive edge. Some U.S. exporters fail to study the foreign market, use it only as a dumping ground for surplus that they cannot sell to the U.S. For example, Germany dominates the radio-set market in Ecuador because her makers produce a compact, high-quality, inexpensive multiple-short-wave set; it sells well in a country where much of the listening is to foreign stations. Comparably priced U.S.-made sets bring in only nearby stations, have only a limited market. U.S. businessmen find it hard to obtain Government help in export financing when...
...idea of 'Compact' determines a basic change in the relationship. It takes away from the very basis of the relationship--the nature and onus of colonialism. It cannot be changed or revoked unilaterally," he continued...