Evening star., 1963-04-26
BUSINESS TRENDS
Typewriters Seen
Regoininq Markets
BY TRUMAN TEMPLE
Star Staff Writer

Innovations in electric typewrters promise to help
American companies lost to Italian German
and Swiss imports.
The latest is portable model operating off nickel
CADMIUM battery similar to one used in the Tesar
munlcatonS satellite Manufactured by sem Corp of New
York the typewriter weighs only 26 pounds oper
ate about six hours without outside electric connection
To reuvenate the power CELL the travelling writer merely
plugs the cord into ordinary wall socket The
type while the device recharging Known the Pow
erter the typewriter good for about 300 rechargngs
around years estimated use The battery may be re-
placed for $l995. The machine costs $l995O.
sem dor Smith Corona Marchant Inc) is betting on
eeccs Tor future markets AS measured by unit sales they
pulling ahead of the conventional machines In
dollar volume they're way out front THE trend toward
electrcs We're aiming especially at students since they'll
be ordering the office machines of tomorrow says Off
cial.
According to United States Commerce Department fig
ues sales of office elecrcs last toaled S7Sl2
pared to 6l,279 manual typewriters.
pnkertons National Detective Agency famed for GEN.
eraons professional gumshoes branching out into do
-yoursef equipment They have established subsidiary
Pinkerton Electro Security Corp Webster Mass which
currently makes the "Radar-Eye Mnuteman"
Roughly the size of two table radios it plugs into any
wall outlet and watches desk safe while you're away
Inc Minuteman sits on desk or bureau, can be dis
gused and sends out invisible radar pattern
truder enters the alarm light signal auto
matically trpped Price OF the gadget about $780,
Digging hole gets more complicated Army engineers
and the Atomic Energy Commission say practical nuclear
cavaton is possible within five years Generalization fusion
devices help cut down and authorities plan chan
neexcavation test later this year to dig ditch 1900 feet
long, 125 feet deep.
The experiment is outgrowth of Project Powshare
begun by the Acc six further peaceful use of n
clear explosives Excavation studies will about
third of its $96 million budget this year.
In the time, United States firm has dispatched
mechanical mole biggest in the world tunnels in
Pakistan for the Manga Dam The machine so feet
long, weighs 300 tons bore hole 36 feet in diameter
at the rate of 6 feet an hour.
Kroger Co. of Cincinnati is trying out credit cards In
of its Birmingham Ala) supermarkets Termed the
Market Plan the scheme cards similar to department
store charge plates Customers billed twice
month local finance comany handling the paper charges
each customer 81 per month for the service
So far it's only fraction of the companys operations
Kroger has 1854 stores in % States including nine this
Briefly noted alcoholic beer is being test-mar-
keed hair preparation by Noramco in Buffalo and
Toronto Two oil companies have set up insurance SUBJ
sdares to sell policies through service stations reason
Gas stations the upper per families that own
hence considered best insurance prospects
Army plans to feed GIs radated bacon they can
tell the difference between the refrigerated type and treated
bacon that has lain on a shelf two years.