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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germany's eager entrepreneurs have carried their country to the greatest prosperity in its history, partly by extending its economic influence into areas that generations of German military strategists coveted but could never manage to capture. For a battle report on one of West Germany's outstanding current trade offensives, see FOREIGN NEWS, West Germany Invades the Mideast...
...voltage may be either 210, 220 or 240-or in a few areas, 110. When an American visitor tries to use a transformer to make a 110-voltage U.S. appliance work in a 220-volt British house, he finds he has been cunningly outwitted: Britain uses 50-cycle current instead of the 60-cycle found in the U.S. This causes 60-cycle U.S. washers and driers to wash and dry feebly, produces a querulous drawl in 60-cycle phonographs and tape recorders...
Sometimes the British even outwit themselves. Last month electricians of the Yorkshire Electricity Board set about installing a new transformer for the small, 30-house village of Carlecotes (pop. 105). When the current was turned on, it lasted exactly 50 seconds. In that time, 72 light bulbs burst in their sockets. Three village street lamps blazed like searchlights and then burned out. TV and radio sets smoked like burning leaves. Electric motors for milking machines and a bottling plant sizzled. Water heaters exploded. The fireworks over, Carlecotes was plunged back into darkness...
...sewed up the postage-meter business-more than 95% of it-that its only woes are with the trustbusters. All the competitors gave up because P-B outsold and outserviced them. Last month P-B signed a consent decree promising to create competition by sharing with all comers its current and future patents, and instructing them how to make, repair and service the postage meters. Wheeler accepted the decree with grace: "We believe in the antitrust legislation and what it has done for the country. We hope other companies do come in. We don't think competition will hurt...
...printer in St. Louis, silver miner in Nevada, correspondent in the Sandwich Islands, river boat pilot on the Mississippi. Clemens fondly speaks of one "charmingly leisurely boat, the slowest on the planet. Upstream she couldn't even beat an island; downstream she was never able to overtake the current...