Word: bedrooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Under Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. was seeing everybody. To Prime Minister Winston Churchill he took a fine acorn-fed Virginia ham with the fat all on it, sat and talked late in the P.M.'s bedroom. Next day he settled to long, earnest talks with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. He lunched with the Bank of England's new Governor, Lord Catto (TIME, April 17), Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Anderson, saw Imperial Chemical's Lord McGowan, Production Minister Oliver Lyttelton. He also had an audience with King George...
Last week Dictator Martínez surmounted the worst crisis of his career. His people are cowed again. His official relations with the U.S. are cordial (he judiciously declared war on the Axis the day after Pearl Harbor). Still secure in his fortress-palace, he paces his bedroom through the night while gun crews keep watch on the roof and new-made ghosts glare in through the windows...
What are the bedroom and bathroom habits of the nation? In the interest of postwar housing design, the John B. Pierce Foundation of Manhattan, a housing research group, investigated this question. The Foundation made a study of 131 typical families (income: $2,000 to $3,000). Findings...
...Most wives complain that their bedroom is too small; 26 claustrophobic wives said it interfered with their sleep. A common bedroom complaint of husbands: stumbling over furniture...
...More than half say that neighbors can see into their bedrooms, and most of them mind it. But 8% do not pull the shade down when dressing with the lights on. Only 15% close the bedroom door at night...