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Word: bathroom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like a thousand Cass County farmhouses, is a seven-room frame structure weathered to a faded ocher with trim the color of last year's canned peas. (Like thousands of Iowa farmers, the Kuesters are patiently waiting for supplies to repaint the house and to put in a bathroom.) A mile away the world goes by on busy Highway U.S. 71 (Canadian border to Baton Rouge). That mile is a dirt road which spring thaws or rains soften to a greasy gumbo navigable only by Dale Kuester's "mud-whoopee," a 1929 Ford roadster that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Man against Hunger | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

Stertz had partitioned off with sleazy grey curtains. The tentlike affair had no win dow, no closet and no furniture but a cot, a straight chair and a rickety table. It cost $6 a week. Betty shared a dirty bathroom with the janitor and six other girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Showplace of Chicago | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

Semi-Private. In Cincinnati, a housewife suffered rude disillusionment after six months of confident belief in her special "one-way vision" bathroom window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 29, 1946 | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...result of four years of experiment and trial building, the 26-by-8-ft. wooden house has walls of "Tempered Presdwood" and plywood, wings which slide out like bureau drawers to form two bedrooms, a kitchen-dining-living room, and bathroom. It is set up complete with all plumbing, bathroom and kitchen fixtures, built-in beds, and bureaus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Goodyear Makes Its Bow | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

Each unit in the new project provides two or three bedrooms, a living room which also serves as a dining room with a kitchen in one end, and a bathroom with stall shower. A two-burner electric plate furnishes heat for cooking, while room heating is provided by an oil burner. Two small non-electric ice-boxes are furnished to each family. Top monthly rent for a three-bedroom unit is $35, for a two-bedroom unit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Temporary Houses Open for Married Veterans | 4/20/1946 | See Source »

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