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...automatic merchandiser that dispenses clothing, makes change from dollar bills, 6) an electronic system linking an airline's ticket offices throughout the U.S., 7) a cart for big-chef barbecues, 8; a plastic balloon building, 9) a 50-ton log stacker, 10) a tree crusher, 11) a transistor radio as small as a sugar cube, 12) a language-translating machine, 13) an underwater torpedo retriever, 14) a movable island crane, 15 ) a high-speed ditch digger, 16) a "pickle picker," 17) a hay pelletizer that makes cookies for cows, 18) a home sound-movie camera, 19) paper clothes...
JAPANESE APPLIANCES will be sold in U.S. by Matsushita company, with its own dealer organization under its own name. Matsushita, top Japanese appliance maker, will introduce four transistor radio models, sell photoflash bulbs and a photoflash gun, may later also market refrigerators, washing machines and other housewares...
...have the facilities to sell it, or a market big enough to make money. The big talk in the electronics industry is of the coming "shake-out" that will spell doom for many of the 5,000 firms now in the industry. Even in the glamorous transistor field, only the strongest and most inventive companies can hope to prosper in the increasingly tough competition...
...Fairchild got what he admits was a "lucky break." Eight young scientists working for Beckman Instruments decided to leave en masse with their idea for producing an extremely advanced transistor. After several companies turned down their request for financial backing, they came to Fairchild. He set them up in Fairchild Semiconductor Corp., as a division of Fairchild Camera, gave them stock in Fairchild Camera. Their success in developing the transistor (division sales may hit $30 million this year) is partly responsible for the spurt in Fairchild stock...
...Corp.-which imports no components from Japan, but competes with firms that do-called for a U.S. boycott of Japanese products "as a counter-demonstration to the cancellation of the Japanese government's invitation to President Eisenhower." He pointed out that Japan sold more than 5,000,000 transistor radios in the U.S. in 1959, charged that jobs have been lost as a result of Japanese imports. Recently, the Japanese government announced plans to limit the export of transistors...