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Word: transistor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever, and there is no sign of their withdrawal now or in the foreseeable future. Living standards for whites have inevitably progressed with the jet and transistor age: fresh newspapers and delicacies from Europe abound in African cities; Belgian pleasure craft swarm on the Congo River of a weekend; a few theaters in each capital allow whites to keep at least some touch with European culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: We Want Our Country | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...launching of the Tokyo Maru symbolized a major change in the nature of Japan's long-buoyant economy. Japan lives by trade, and for years that trade was produced chiefly by its light industry, which flooded world markets with cameras, transistor radios and miniature TV sets. Today, by contrast, Japan's heavy industry, particularly steel and shipbuilding, accounts for the major portion of the country's exports. Japanese yards have 7,800,000 tons of new ships under construction or on order, will sell 75% of the total to foreign buyers. Overall, exports rose 27% last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: An End to Pessimism | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

...thorns and needlebushes, wearily resting from time to time on the rotting jungle mat that teemed with ants, snakes, and scorpions. At night they placed their tents on the squishy forest floor, undressed and burned the leeches off their bodies with glowing cigarettes. Here and there, muffled pocket transistor radios brought rock 'n' roll from Saigon, but fires were forbidden, and still the rains came, filling trenches with water as soon as they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Name of the Game Is Zap, Zap, Zap | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

...screeching jets, diesel trucks, transistor radios, air hammers and outboard motors, how can a man tell the world to shut up? He can try by suing for damages or asking the courts for an injunction, but he can hardly expect silence. Having coped with human din ever since people first huddled in towns, the law is well aware that one man's noise is another man's music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Law of Noise | 9/10/1965 | See Source »

...most intense trading drive. Last month a twelve-man Zambian trade delegation was swept through Tokyo with a platoon of geishas, even treated to a reception with the Emperor. The Zambians took away their first trade pact with Japan and promises of investments in a fertilizer plant, textile mill, transistor radio assembly plant, steel mill and luxury hotel. For its part, Zambia lifted all restrictions on Japanese imports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: Salesmen San on Safari | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

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