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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
be interested to know that, uh, it's uh, just fifty years ago since the first industrial, uh, installation of air conditioning was made in a printing plant in Brooklyn. And, uh, during the past fifty years, there have been many advances until now.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Comfort air conditioning is becoming an industry of great importance to people in both, uh, their business places and in their homes.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
I suppose it's, uh, largely a matter of greatest interest in the areas that are hottest. Uh, isn't that true? Or do we in the Arctic these days? [laughter]

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
I am afraid we will never sell air conditioning units to the eskimos. But, uh, it's perfectly true, Mr. Davis, that the great need for air conditioning is in the tropics.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
In this country, of course, the hottest regions are around the Gulf Coast and through the Southwest. And, naturally enough, that is where air conditioning is making its biggest strides.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Are they pretty well air conditioned down there or is the future for the business down there a pretty gloomy one, or what, em, in those areas?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Well we feel that, uh, basically anywhere in the country the, uh, that air conditioning, uh, will, uh, will be accepted through three factors.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
First, whether the climate is so hot that it is really needed. Second, whether there is an economic situation which makes purchasing power favorable. And third, whether Mr. Jones across the street has already bought it.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Well now let- lets take the theaters. Theaters are pretty well air conditioned, aren't they, uh, throughout the country?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Uh, large theaters in the larger cities are almost entirely, uh, air conditioned. But, it is surprising the large number of small neighborhood houses that haven't gotten air conditioning yet, have only a rather crude ventilating system.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
I would say that the theaters, perhaps, are only one-third to one-half saturated.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
What about office buildings? Uh, a lot of the new ones I know are having air conditioning installed along with the normal heating plans and that sort of thing.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Well I- I sincerely believe that a modern office building cannot be built today without installing air conditioning because of the fear of obsolescence without it.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Otherwise they can't, uh, rent the heat.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Offices unless they are air conditioned. [[crosstalk]]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
They can't rent the space. [[crosstalk/]]

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Nevertheless, there are a tremendous number of office buildings that are in existence that are not air conditioned. The surface has hardly been scratched.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
My guess is that maybe only ten percent of all in the country have been air conditioned.