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...Truck Farmer Simon Eygenraam, summed up their problem: "Look, we Dutchmen together produce much more than the home market needs, and we export, mostly to Britain and Germany. But we're hampered by trade restrictions and quotas . . . I cannot get foreign currency, therefore I cannot buy the freezer units I would like to have. I cannot get more land for my sons . . . That's no kind of future to offer my children...
...plant turned out household refrigerators and butcher's display cases, pioneered in freezers and air-conditioning equipment. By the end of World War II, Amana's leading line, a $500 home freezer, was being sold in nearly 5,000 retail outlets, backed by national advertising. By last year, the refrigerator plant, still run by Foerstner, employed 350 workers in the peak season (including non-Amanists), and grossed nearly $3,000,000. Such capitalistic prosperity proved too frightening to the 1,500 Amanists...
...heck and advertise." Businessmen did indeed advertise-the more than $400 million spent in newspapers in 1949 was the greatest ever. They also cut prices, squared off against their competitors, and ran their own private giveaway programs. Many appliance sellers threw in $40 worth of frozen meat with every freezer; in Milwaukee, a furniture store offered a free airplane ride with every $50 purchase. In Denver, a used-car dealer gave every purchaser a second car for i?. House builders, who had yawned at any request for a house under $20,000, hustled to turn them out at less than...
...connection with the article concerning deep freezer gifts, etc. [TIME, Sept. 12], I would call to your attention the words of an other public official on the subject of the receipt of gifts. John Quincy Adams, in writing to the U.S. consul in Madeira, after receiving a hogshead of wine, said, in requesting a bill for the wine...
...Should I answer that?" Gross asked incredulously. McCarthy said yes. The answer: "Well, Mr. Harry Vaughan." Had Vaughan paid for it? Gross testified that the freezer-and more sent to other Government officials-had been paid for (price: seven for $2,625) by Albert Verley & Co. of Chicago, a perfume firm...