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Tiny Portable. A six-transistor, one-battery portable radio that weighs half a pound and measures only 2¼ in. by 3⅛ by if in.-slightly larger than a cigarette box-was put on sale in the U.S. by Japan's Hitachi, Ltd. Price...
...campaign is to establish a stable price and uniform quality for its exports by policing Japanese industry, encouraging manufacturers to design their own products. The idea is already showing results, though there are plenty of problems. The best Japanese transistor radios compete on even terms with RCA's-and $4,300,000 worth of them poured into U.S. markets in 1958's first six months. The one trouble is that so many fly-by-night Japanese companies are trying to hop aboard the gravy train that the Japanese Trade Ministry has been forced to lay down a check...
...were it not for dozens of other camera makers, who get around export regulations by labeling their third-rate products "toys." Once Japanese businessmen winked at the practice. Today, it aggravates them so that Matsushita Electric Industries Co., Japan's biggest electrical-communications maker, withdrew from the U.S. transistor market "rather than lose face." Matsushita intends to launch a sales campaign, win U.S. consumer confidence by providing service for its radios...
Reveille is sounded before daybreak by transistor radios blasting out the morning news. At their irregular meals, the men eat rice or boiled starchy roots, dried codfish or bananas, sometimes boa constrictor or raccoon. They march, often dry and thirsty, through the hot midday. Castro moves along with them, joshing his men, examining their weapons, dressing-down laggards...
...cars, OIdsmobile boasted of a dashboard transistor radio that could be taken out and used as a portable. Last week Oldsmobile sadly admitted that it was too portable. Across the U.S. the radios were being stolen at a fast clip as owners forgot to lock them in. Olds promptly devised a tougher dashboard lock and anti-jimmying device, which it will install on its cars from...