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...Automatic Teamaking. An automatic teamaking machine has been developed by Food Machinery & Chemical Corp. for the Tea Council of the U.S.A., Inc. and the National Restaurant Association. By infusing fresh tea with 200° F. water, the stainless-steel pushbutton brewer makes 500 cups of hot tea or 400 glasses of iced tea an hour. Teamen see a potential market for the $850 machine in 241,000 high-volume restaurants, note that tea is one of the most lucrative restaurant items, with iced tea grossing an 85% profit. Using a pilot model, one restaurant boosted hot tea sales 125%, iced...
...electronic products annually and leads in color TV, is planning to market a noiseless electronic air conditioner, has a pilot model now in operation. A.T.&T., whose entire telephone network is one gigantic computer, is working hard on a visual phone system it calls "Picture-phone," is experimenting with pushbutton dialing and voice dialing. Raytheon is already producing electronic range units for near-instant cooking, hopes to get the price to consumers down to $500 (from $1,200) soon. Westinghouse, which already has computer-controlled electronic elevators in operation, will soon market an electronic air purifier that removes...
Along the rest of "Motor Mile" on Commonwealth Avenue, all the other brands were celebrating Washington's birthday. Chevrolet dealers wore red boutonnieres and were offering a television set as a prize to some lucky customer. Plymouth featured an impressive lineup of pushbutton drive, oriflow shock absorbers, and wind tunnel tested air fins. Perhaps not first in war or first in peace, it claimed to be first in the low-priced three...
Every year he had a new sales hit. In 1950 he mass-produced Germany's first ultra-high-frequency radios, in 1951 its first pushbutton tuning. In 1953 he startled West Germany by selling a TV set for less than 1,000 marks ($238). In 1954 he brought out the first tape recorders priced under 500 marks, sold 100,000 of them in two years. Then Grundig introduced his small, low-priced "Stenorette" tape dictating machine ($169.50 in the U.S.), sold 100,000 in 18 months...
...Central's installation of pushbutton traffic controls is only the latest example of a great revolution sweeping U.S. railroads (see color pages). Since World War II, the industry has poured some $12 billion into new engines, new tracks and trains, a host of futuristic electronic gadgets. As a result of their increased efficiency, the 113 Class 1 U.S. railroads (more than $3,000,000 annual revenue) have been able to cut their road mileage from 249,000 mi. in 1929 to about 220,000 mi. today, the number of locomotives from 61,300 to 34,000, the number...