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...pocket radios connect each policeman with the Harvard police office in Grays Hall and permit speedier reporting of disturbances and dispatching of policemen to The Scene of the Crime...
Status Appeal. Prices are not the only attraction, since few U.S. goods yet compete directly in price in Europe. But as the gap narrows, the selling points of U.S. products become more attractive: better quality, smarter design, less need of servicing, speedier deliveries than can be made by many European competitors, who are already working at full capacity. In many cases, American manufacturers offer goods that Europeans only recently realized they wanted. Barbecue grills and gadgets are selling fast among Frenchmen, who have lately discovered le week-end opportunities for le camping, le barbecue, and le pique-nique. And just...
...improved skill of U.S. businessmen. Since financing a stockpile can cost a firm up to 20% of its sales dollar, businessmen have been working steadily at machines and methods designed to make large inventories unnecessary. Better sales projections now enable companies to anticipate their future needs more closely, and speedier deliveries from suppliers with ample plant capacity make it unnecessary to keep big stocks on hand. Automated warehouses make possible much tighter control of inventories; computers are increasingly being put to work measuring the amount of stock and reordering...
...Diamond's rockets passed through the 125-knot "jet stream," which boots airliners along from west to east some 35,000 ft. above the earth. Far above that, they found a speedier "upper jet stream," which reversed its direction with the changing seasons. During the fall and winter, it zooms out of the west at some 150 knots. In spring and summer, it slows to 100 knots and drives from east to west...
...hopes of eradicating gonorrhea with wonder drugs, but last week the U.S. Public Health Service reported that before the end of 1963 the anti-gonorrhea campaign may be made vastly more effective. This time it is not a new drug that is arousing new hope, but an improved and speedier way of detecting the disease...