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...discounter to cut. The laws can be enforced against big, well-known stores (e.g., New York's R. H. Macy & Co., Bloomingdale Bros., Abraham & Straus), but few manufacturers have the time or energy to slap a lawsuit on every small discounter. Some big companies such as Sunbeam, Magnavox and General Electric are trying to police their dealers rigidly. But many companies are none too anxious to lower the boom on discount stores that move large quantities of goods, since the manufacturer still gets his full markup. In fact, even businessmen who publicly condemn discount houses often deal with them...
...SUNBEAM Corp., a major small-appliance maker (1953 net sales: $79,860,203), may soon make its first move into the heavy-appliance field. The company is now test-marketing a three-quarter-ton home air conditioner ($389.50), expects to sell it through small housewares stores...
...Control. The first electric frying pan with an automatic heat-control unit was brought out by Sunbeam Corp. On the handle is a list of foods, with recommended temperatures for frying; the pan can be set for temperatures ranging up to 400° F. A sealed heating element permits washing of the entire pan. Price...
...field (one English critic, chagrined when his country lost in an international exhibition, attributed U.S. successes to the American climate). At first, U.S. daguerreotype studios were sedate affairs, always featuring, as one writer described them, "the pianoforte, the music box, the singing of birds; the elegant drapery . . . the struggling sunbeam peering through doors of stained glass . . ." But production was upped from a few pictures to thousands a day, partly because of a group of go-getting photographers nicknamed "blue bosom boys." (As in TV, they could not properly photograph white shirt fronts.) Then photography passed two major milestones...
...gave him his chance. Rootes bought up, at distress prices, three famed but inefficient old companies-Humber, Hillman and Commer. He modernized their equipment and methods, had them paying dividends again within a year. Later the fast-growing Rootes Group took in others until it embraced 20 companies, including Sunbeam-Talbot...