The Imperial Cotton Company produced a quarterly newsletter called, The Fabricator , to bring news to the staff about group insurance plans, a cafeteria unit that seated 165 people, upgrades of new technology such as electric refrigerators and a newly purchased lunchroom piano by the Entertainment Committee.
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There was a 1922 model that consisted of a wooden cold box, water-cooled compressor, an ice cube tray and a compartment, and cost $ 714 . ( A 1922 Model-T Ford cost about $ 450 . ) By 1923, Kelvinator held 80 percent of the market for electric refrigerators.
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Energy-saving devices listed in the Real Goods catalog include the super-efficient Sun Frost electric refrigerator; instant on-demand water heaters, which heat water only as it is being used ( with no tank for hot water ) and compact fluorescent light bulbs, which use one-fourth the electricity of incandescent bulbs.
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Authorization for the building of a plant in Minsk to produce electric refrigerators was established by the Council of Ministers of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic by resolution 554 on August 24, 1959 . The location selected for the plant was near Victory Park in the northwest sector of Minsk, which at that time was in the Soviet Union.
