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...patrols checking for leaks. The sugar industry recorded an average annual gain of 4.2%, largely because it has been making greater use of power scoops and shovels to move sugar around in mills. The shoe industry had the lowest gain, .3% a year, because it still relies mostly on handwork...
WEDNESDAY night's riot in the Square was no incidental marring of an afternoon of peaceful protest. Nor was it the handwork of an isolated clique of anarchists bent on wreaking havoc for reasons of sheer perversity. The number of people that became actively involved and the depth of the anger, fear, and doubt that it touched off in most of us demand that we find less simplistic explanations...
Split Operations. Such advantages have fostered split manufacturing operations, under which Mexican workers do normally expensive handwork on items that can then be finished or assembled cheaply in the U.S. Example: Kayser-Roth's Catalina division cuts fabric for jackets and sportswear in Los Angeles, gets most of the stitching done in its Mexicali plant. Counting wages, duty and 400-mile round-trip trucking expenses, the Mexicali work adds up to about $1.20 per hour, compared with the $1.85 it would cost in Los Angeles...
Outclassed by foreign camera makers and outresearched in one important area by Polaroid. Kodak is counterattacking by stressing its own low-cost convenience. Of course, admits President Vaughn, "holding prices down means cutting the finishing costs and the handwork on cameras.'' It also means invading the competitors' home grounds abroad, where Kodak sold more than $325 million in cameras and film last year and will invest $27½ million in capital expansion and modernization this year. "If you can get a Frenchman to drink Coca-Cola," says Vaughn optimistically, "it won't be long before...
...Javanese art-beautiful hand-dipped batik cloth and finely worked silver-Sukarno smilingly asked Nikita, "Which would you like?" Growled Khrushchev: "I don't like anything, I don't like anything," but added grudgingly, "The workmanship is good." When Sukarno, nettled, tried to explain the intricate handwork involved, Khrushchev put him straight on the new industrialism: "They cost too much, not only in price but in human life. If we go on like this, there will be no progress. Machines, machines are what you need!" But he posed for photographers when Sukarno wrapped a sarong around his waist...