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...chairs produced by the leading U.S. manufacturer, Chicago's Emil J. Paidar Co. In fact, the parts were interchangeable. Thus, if an arm or footrest broke, Takara's distributors in the U.S. simply picked up replacements from Paidar, eliminating the need for expensive shipping or an even costlier service network...
...Honest, Jim and Maureen Cunningham, now you can afford to go to Britain." A year ago some ads for Eastern Air Lines were entirely given over to touting the smiles of the stewardesses; today Eastern's ads carefully specify price, service and routes. In 1969 Hertz highlighted its costlier car rentals...
...promised protection that would hold back imports of wool and man-made fibers by international agreement, much as cotton textiles have been restricted since 1962. Textiles today are less important to Japan's trade balance than they once were; that country has been switching its export emphasis to costlier and more complex products, like television sets and turbines. But the Japanese fear that if they yield on textiles, they will face similar demands for quotas on other goods. The U.S. electronics industry has already asked Washington's tariff commission to investigate alleged Japanese dumping of TV sets. Japanese...
Merry Christmas. The U.S. campaign to persuade Japan and other countries to lower the barriers will be set back if Congress passes protectionist quotas on textiles. The Japanese are privately resigned to passage of the Mills bill, which could well prove costlier to the U.S. than to them. It would not only place the responsibility on Washington for reversing a worldwide trend toward freer trade, but would also add to inflation in the U.S. The danger always exists that Congress, in an election year, will turn Mills' proposal into a Christmas-tree bill, loading it down with amendments setting...
...Nixon Administration's main plan for helping housing is to stop inflation. Unless that is done, construction, and especially land costs will continue to rise, and mortgage money will become still scarcer and costlier. The result could be a housing famine that no politically conceivable amount of public subsidy could alleviate...