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American firms have also profited from Europe's increasing fascination with self-service machines. Vendo Co. of Kansas City exports automatic dispensers for German beer and wine; Westinghouse and Whirlpool both are selling coin-operated laundry and dry-cleaning equipment; and a small Greenville, S.C., firm called Barbecue King expects to double European sales of restaurant barbecue equipment this year to $600,000. "This is the time to go in there," says Barbecue King President Robert Wilson. "They really want to buy American goods...
...scandal takes place in a placid little provincial backwater, on the surface of which floats a handful of dissipated notables trying to forget how bored they are. Everyone is caught in a pointless, narcotic whirlpool of wine and frivolity, and everyone is constantly being dragged down into silly flirtations and seductions...
Banking is only part of the boom. The main island of New Providence will soon have a new $2,800,000 Bacardi rum factory; such firms as Bethlehem Steel, Whirlpool, Owens-Illinois Glass and Outboard Marine have come in with overseas sales offices. On Grand Bahama, a $1,500,000 bunkering terminal pumps more than 1,000,000 bbl. of marine fuel a month into vessels from all over the world, while close by a subsidiary of U.S. Steel is building a $50 million cement plant. Even the cold war is pumping life into the sultry economy...
...final fling in the music room, the zamindar sold his wife's jewels. His wife and son were visiting her family at the time, but he insisted that they pack up and come home for the affair. On the way down the river they were caught in a whirlpool and drowned...
...usual because of a change of command in the credit subsidiary's hierarchy, turned up jarring discrepancies. Auditors from Ernst & Ernst, which had been examining the books for six years, found that $15 million to $18 million of the receivables consist of noncollectable bad paper. This will cut Whirlpool's aftertax earnings as much as $10 million for the year in 1963. A loss of unknown dimensions also faces Carrier Corp., the Rochester, N.Y., air-conditioning manufacturer that owns the remaining 20% of the subsidiary...