Word: broiler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cards, and each week four cards are drawn from a hopper. President Hugh Clary, or some other executive, then phones the wife and asks her how much business her husband has brought in so far that month. If she knows, she gets a free appliance (electric coffeemaker, toaster, broiler, etc.). So far, 17 wives have been called, and every one has had the answer, to the penny. One proudly reported that her husband had passed his month's quota in only eight days. Overall results: Clary's dollar sales in May were up 22% over April, 13% over...
...they always come to hover around a man of power. Some got the Senator in a corner and talked earnestly to him. Some wandered into the kitchen and sampled the bourbon. Some just stood around. Between conversations and phone calls, the Senator ate dinner in the kitchen. The broiler of pork chops, having eaten his fill, made a serious pitch for a job, but the Senator promised nothing...
Perhaps the most notable change goes farthest back into American life: cooking over an open fire. In the newest expensive kitchens, fireplaces or barbecue pits are standard equipment. Other householders use broilers or rotisseries. Broiler sales last year reached $72,402,000, more than quadruple :he 1952 total. One new firm, the Broil-Quik Co., grossed around $1,000,000 in 1950, its first year; by last year, sales had shot up to $10 million, and the company expects to gross between $15 million and $20 million in 1954. Welbilt Stove last year put an electric rotisserie...
...broiler heat of a tin-roofed basketball stadium, 863 delegates of the Philippines' Liberal Party gathered one day last week to nominate a presidential candidate. For the first time in the party's brief postwar history, it had a choice to make. The alternatives: to renominate powerful and clever President Elpidio Quirino for a second term, or shuck him and his corruption-tainted regime and nominate peppery Carlos Romulo, ex-Foreign Secretary, ex-president of the United Nations General Assembly...
Before the evening was over, Al had sold Liz the $100 bargain, and her mother a $69 broiler combination...