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Word: cleaner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home-repair clubs. The crews of some 30 Allied contractors, from plumbers and tree surgeons to swimming-pool pumpers, went right to work. In recent weeks, Allied also supplied a cotton candymaker for a children's party, searched for a woman's contact lenses in vacuum cleaner dust, drew up estimates for the cost of building a pool and shelter-house for a duck that a twelve-year-old camper brought back from camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Don't Do It Yourself | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

CHILDREN'S TREAT was ordered by Food and Drug Administration, which issued a new set of standards to enrich ice cream, the favorite U.S. dessert (18.7 Ibs. per person last year). Henceforth it must be richer, cleaner, and contain less air and water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Aug. 8, 1960 | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

Clean Sweep. In Richmond, Calif., after a night of tippling, seven vacuum-cleaner salesmen decided to stage a selling competition at 4:50 a.m., knocked on the door of John A. Penberthy, who dispersed them with three shots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 11, 1960 | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

Cambridge, by contrast, is cleaner, quieter, and usually a more pleasant place to live. But in spite of all the little diversions of the summer, it can get pretty dull. Even if it only to see a movie or to ramble around Scollay, you should travel those eight minutes to Park Street and take a look at Hell.The lovely banks of the Charles...

Author: By Rober W. Gordon, | Title: Boston: Unchanging Evil Spinster | 7/5/1960 | See Source »

...life as heavyweight champ, Ingemar Johansson (see SPORT) found U.S. advertisers beating a path to his throne with blank checks and myriad products for him to endorse-everything from Pioneer key rings to Man-Tan and Lord West tuxedos. Only a few went away disappointed. Among them: a vacuum cleaner manufacturer who wanted the champ to lie down on a rug in the ad, and a group of prosperous salami makers who wanted Ingo to pose beside a pile of salami (Ingo agreed to do it, but not for hay: he asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Ingomarred | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

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