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...Netherlands, this fall will open another in Scotland; later this year, U.S. Time will begin producing Swingers in Scotland. One indicator of Polaroid's foreign potential is that in camera-heavy West Germany, despite higher prices than in the U.S., sales of its cameras this year have increased twentyfold...
...struggling knitting mill in 1956 was to begin selling seamless nylon stockings in supermarkets for 750 a pair−half the standard price. Today, every other pair of women's hosiery sold in West Germany is made by his firm, Schulte & Dieckhoff, whose sales have increased twentyfold in the past nine years, to $90 million...
...relatively uninhabited areas to be as free as possible from the surface noises of wind, rain, traffic and grazing cattle. Known as LASA, for Large Aperture Seismic Array, the Montana system was laid out to get the best possible signal-to-noise ratio; it promises to provide a twentyfold improvement in the U.S.'s ability to detect seismic signals. With so many instruments spaced so far apart, it will also be possible to trace the direction and distance of an incoming signal because it will be received by all sensors at slightly different times. Though its potential detection capability...
...watt transmitter. Then it called for full-power current. Then it gave the payoff order: to turn on the high plate voltage that would actually start the big transmitter. Eighty-six seconds after the final command left the earth, the signal strength from Pioneer V increased twentyfold. The big boy was on the line, calling loud and clear from Pioneer V as the probe continued on its lonely journey...
From 16th place among the world's trading nations in 1938, Russia has risen to sixth-and is still rising. Its volume jumped from $1.5 billion in 1946 to $8.25 billion last year; its exports of industrial equipment have increased twentyfold. Today the Soviet Union has trade agreements with some 31 countries outside the Iron Curtain, and in the last year alone added Morocco, Tunisia, Cambodia, Japan and Ceylon to its list...