Word: bathtub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Umbashed by this setback, Miss Dixon took the turtle to her West Newton home that night and joined him in the bathtub. "He swam and he swam and he swam," Miss Dixon said, recounting the thrill of the event...
...companies and individuals who rode the gravy trains of easy prosperity will be reduced to walking the rails again." But there are plenty of opportunities; 27 million Americans still have no kitchen sinks, 18 million have no washing machines, 25 million lack vacuum cleaners, 40 million have neither bathtub nor shower. The job of supplying such needs could keep business hopping for generations...
...highly publicized corpse in the country after a citizen left her slashed body on a vacant lot. A Mrs. Mary James was dispatched with more finesse-her husband thrust her foot into a box containing a rattlesnake, gave her a drink of whisky and then drowned her in the bathtub...
...Last week, Arkansas' Senator J. William Fulbright, whose Banking & Currency Sub-committee was digging into RFC's affairs, popped an interesting question: Did people want to live in steel houses? "I have only seen one of them," said Fulbright, "but it sort of reminds you of a bathtub...
...quite a bathtub, replied RFC Director Harvey J. Gunderson. The first blue and yellow Lustron houses were "a little like hotdog stands." But the newer grey and green houses, he thought, were a great improvement...