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...Merchant" Tadashi Ebino was finally tracked down by police after he had 1) collected 2,000 yen ($5) in advance from a customer, 2) borrowed the customer's bicycle to deliver the rice, 3) borrowed the customer's watch to make certain he got to the rice pickup point on time, 4) failed to return...
...phonograph pickup with its own transmitter. Smaller than a package of cigarettes, this self-contained radio station broadcasts through a conventional radio...
Some models were designed for playing records, others tape. But each depended on a thoroughly binaural system, from pickup on through to home playback. This means two microphones to "hear" the performance, two systems of groovings on the same record (or double-track tape), a double-pronged tone arm, two amplifiers and two speakers. Each circuit carries the same music, but the music is caught in slightly different sonic "perspectives." In a recording of a symphony, for example, the violins will be slightly stronger in the left speaker, the brasses stronger in the right. A listener sitting between should hear...
...leathery Felix Marx, 48, a foundry technician, bought 1,600 ft. of rope, feather-lined suits, three tents, sleeping bags, canned milk, chocolate, dried fruit and special concentrated food. At the mountain city of Huancayo, they loaded the gear and Broennimann's plump bride Susan into a pickup truck, and drove 530 miles to ancient Cusco...
...pickup was also felt in the auto industry. With credit relaxed, sales rose; dealers had only 256,793 cars on hand v. 369,101 at this time last year. Demand was so brisk that it was again taking as long as eight weeks to get delivery on a Ford or Chevrolet, and four to six months on a Cadillac. Independents, whose sales had been soggiest, shared in the rise; Hudson's sales were up 40% for April and May, and Kaiser-Frazer's also gained. The buying impetus spilled over into appliances; General Electric reported its May sales...