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...plea would find ready support from a small but growing number of U.S. producers pinched by foreign competition. Manufacturers of typewriters, fishing tackle, brass plumbing and floor tile, along with shrimp fishermen and horseradish-root growers, are asking the Government to check foreign competition. Such successful Japanese imports as transistor radios, umbrellas and chinaware are rising. So are imports of scissors and shears from Italy and West Germany, leather gloves from France and fish meal (for fertilizer) from Canada and Peru...
...rose from $1.67 to $3.81 in the last 2½ months as its ex ports soared. Founded only twelve years ago by Masaru Ibuka. a onetime radio-station repairman, Sony now exports 25,000 pocket radios a month to the U.S. and Canada, will soon introduce a portable, all-transistor TV set. Next month it will also start exporting a new semiconductor that it invented: a "tunnel diode." U.S. companies have found it so superior to present diodes for many uses that Gen eral Electric, RCA and others are hustling to mass-produce their...
...Transistor Portable TV. Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp. will put on sale in April the first U.S. transistorized portable TV set with a direct-view picture instead of a magnified image. The 28-lb., loin. set will cost about...
Perhaps most notable of all are the scientists: Physicist John Bardeen, who shared a Nobel prize for perfecting the transistor; Astronomer James G. Baker, inventor of a satellite-tracking camera; Chemist R. B. Woodward, synthesizer of quinine and reserpine; Physicist Ivan A. Getting, World War II radar pioneer and now a vice president of Raytheon; Physicist James B. Fisk, president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and the West's chief expert on atom-test bans in the Geneva negotiations with the Russians...
...missile production at Tucson. Word of the easy life spread through family and community grapevines. Chicago's Paul V. Galvin, then president of Motorola Inc., cagily realized that Phoenix would be a good place for luring the scientists and engineers needed to pioneer the electronic age's transistor production, founded an industry that is still doubling and redoubling production and employment...