The low-paying jobs making TVs, refrigerators and seat belts for American cars required nimble workmanship and drew young women from all over Mexico and Central America.

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Another notion: Using barcodes so refrigerators can automatically order milk and cheese when they run low or get close to their expiration date.

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He set up low interest instalment credit plans which enabled thousands to avoid the loan sharks and buy cookers and refrigerators and autos, and he built a whole new electrical industry with his loans.

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