Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...village of Comilla, another inventive corpsman Robert Taylor, 24, from Oakdale, Calif., solved the problem of parboiling rice without using scarce wood; he uses rice husks instead, does the job ten times faster. Stephen L. Keller, 24, from Brooklyn, New York, watched a worker in a Punjab bicycle factory count 6,800 ball bearings one by one, built a ball-bearing counter that dispenses ten at a time...
Inevitably, the swelling number of dis count houses accounts for an increasingly large share of U.S. retail sales (see chart...
...more important, the discounters are making the pie bigger. Last year's dis count store sales of $4 billion are expected to grow this year to more than $5 billion-and conventional retailers are also ringing up increased sales...
...beginning, nobody but the cus tomer had a good word to say about dis count houses. But it has been found that when a discount buyer pays less than he had expected for a TV set or refrigerator, he is usually in the mood to spend the extra money on other goods. Discounters thus contribute their bit to economic growth every time they induce a customer to swap dollars for goods that he would not have bought had prices been higher...
...Calories Don't Count, Taller...