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...N.A.H.B.'s $13,500 house is completely air-conditioned (heating and cooling), comes with all appliances, including a dishwasher, clothes washer and dryer, has an attractive fenced patio and carport. Without these features it could cost as little as $9,600. N.A.H.B. President Nels Severin likes it so well that he plans to build one in San Diego...
...June, has been in the black since. The pickup in Philco refrigerator sales was so marked that Philco brought out its 1959 models in August, six weeks earlier than usual. Laundry products have picked up so fast that Philco put in an extra assembly line for the Duomatic washer-dryer. And though TV sets are still the industry's weakest spot (down 24% from last year), Philco's TV sales are running ahead of last year...
...undeveloped nations, washday means a trek to the nearest stream, where clothes are beaten or scrubbed by hand. To improve on this, the International Cooperation Administration demonstrated a wooden, hand-operated washing machine simple enough to be built by semiskilled workers for $3 on a quantity basis. The washer holds the clothes in a rectangular tub while two plungers, attached to a crossbeam that is operated by hand, force water back and forth through them. ICA plans to send models to its missions around the world...
...autos and appliances. Despite the drastic production cutbacks in cars, customers are still buying new models for as little as $100 more than the cost to the dealer. In the appliance industry, said one General Electric man, the markdowns are so extreme that "you can now buy a refrigerator, washer, dishwasher for fewer actual dollars than you could ten years ago-and that's including inflation." There has been some trimming in other areas. Retailers with excess stocks of room air-conditioners cut prices on older models as much as 25% ; Sears, Roebuck and Co. cut its power tools...
...gone from baa to worse. At home he tries manfully not to blubber ("They don't want me any more"), and his wife takes dismal, comical inventory of the monthly payments they must meet. "Well, there's the new hot-water heater . . . the garbage-disposal unit, the washer and dryer, the TV and the hifi, the new divan and those silly chairs that match, the gas range, the Deepfreeze, the power mower, the electric barbecue, the dining suite, the bedroom suite ..." The only thing they can do, the husband ruefully decides, is cut down on luxuries-like food...