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...export to the West, second-rate stuff for "fraternal allies," third-rate goods for home consumption. Even though the East Germans are Communism's most efficient workers, they produce only 50% as well as their West German brothers. While take-home wages average about $142 a month, a nylon shirt in East Germany costs $20, a pair of men's quality shoes...
...coats attractively, and visited Paris, London and Munich fashion shows. Before, we always feared competing in the Western market. To our surprise, we tripled our sales westward. We even sell embroidered coats to Japan." A consumer magazine, Nagyitó ("Magnifying Glass"), has appeared, examining such products as refrigerators, nylon stockings and canned goulash...
...difficult enough to tell who wears the pants in the family, something new has come along to add to the confusion: panty hose for men. Stretch-nylon Mani-Hose, designed to be worn as underwear, are catching on across the U.S. Ribbed from the calf down and equipped with a fly front, they come in several colors but in only one size-30-40 waist and 12-13 foot. After being bought initially by only the most daring, they have now become popular (at $6.50 per pair) with thousands of policemen, mailmen, skiers and other outdoor types...
...stimulated equal amounts of Establishment enterprise. Pinkerton's, the venerable private constabulary that hunted down Butch Cassidy and was McClellan's private OSS in the Civil War, is marketing 'the new Pinkerton Bomb Blanket, a four-by-four 18-layer core of high-tensile ballistic nylon covered by fire-retardant Herculite to smother incendiary bombs...
...Surgeons make an incision behind the recipient's ear and cut away any diseased or damaged portions of the hearing organs before replacing them with the donor tissue.,If only the donor's eardrum is used, it is fastened to the patient's ossicles with a nylon sling. If the donor's ossicles are used as well, they are connected to the patient's remaining ear bones so that sound vibrations can be conducted unimpeded to the inner...