Word: transistor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carries a 2,500-roll library, sells about 200 rolls a week, compared with ten rolls a week two years ago. Most of the rolls are old standards (After the Ball, Ain't We Got Fun, The Old Rugged Cross), but new numbers from Broadway musicals and the transistor hit parade are added each week. The source of Macy's supply is the Q.R.S. Co. in The Bronx. Lone survivor of the once more than 50 U.S. roll makers, Q.R.S. sees brighter days ahead. Its artist-in-residence, J. Lawrence Cook, turns out the rolls by playing...
...land, Han's Jeep convoys loaded with booty defiantly traveled without license plates and with their own armed guard. It was a profitable two-way trade: to Japan he ferried Koreans who each paid $150-$300 for the illegal passage; from Japan he smuggled contraband cosmetics, toys, transistor radios, small machinery. By 1960 Han was grossing $500,000 a year. Dozens of customs and police officials were on his payroll...
...Because of its high wages, the U.S. is behind competitively in products that require a large amount of labor, notably consumer and precision goods, such as transistor radios, cameras, porcelain, cutlery, shoes, rugs, bicycles, small tools...
...winter chill by toasting their feet on an electric footwarmer. So well paid are their jobs at the nearby Matsushita Electric Co. radio plant-as a foreman, Seiji makes $61.12 a month, plus a bonus of 6½ months' pay last year-that they also own a refrigerator, transistor radio, vacuum cleaner, electric iron and washer. If the expectant Kumiko presents him with a son next month, Seiji even talks confidently of sending the boy to a university. "What more could I want?" Seiji ruminates contentedly-and answers himself: "I can't think of anything." The contentment...
...sold his daughters into prostitution to tide the family over bad times, now equips his wife with gleaming appliances and works his tiny fields with a motor plow. In the big cities, housemaids, who 20 years ago lived in something approaching involuntary servitude, are now apt to carry a transistor radio tucked away in their handbags, may even be putting a few dollars a month into mutual funds...