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Routine. In Providence, charged with making improper advances to a housewife, Vacuum Cleaner Salesman John R. Marcos assured police that it was merely part of his sales technique...
...entry: Dined C. D. evening. Party. Nuff Said. To Henry, Nuff Said meant wickedly delightful. Reveling in his betrayal, Henry manufactured situations to throw Madge and Diver together. He faked a business trip and returned unexpectedly to find somebody's cigarette in Madge's bedroom (the window cleaner's, she said). In a little notebook he carefully wrote down all his "evidence...
...industrial doctors and nurses, to demonstrate the skills handicapped men & women can master. In a sample scene a wife with one arm expertly ran a sewing machine, and teased her husband, also one-armed, into helping her fix the house for a bridge party; he deftly whisked a vacuum cleaner around the room, then hung a strip of new wallpaper. Then, in a business scene, a stenographer with one leg operated office equipment; her one-legged boss interviewed salesmen who demonstrated golf and fishing equipment to him. Kruger, no longer an active officer in the organization, beamingly got into...
Landers had stripped all the frills and doodads from its de luxe tank-type cleaner to get a cheaper one on the market. Example: the light that flashed when the tank needed emptying was eliminated...
General Electric Co. shaved $10 off the price of its upright vacuum cleaner (new price: $44.95) by such changes as a wood-and-metal for an all-metal handle. G.E. was about to bring out a new dishwasher that would not require permanent plumbing fixtures, thus abolishing installation costs running to $125 on current models. G.E. had also eliminated a soaking gadget on a new-model automatic washing machine, thereby saving the buyer $70 (price: $299.50). After two years of experiments and a $2,500,000 outlay for development, Bendix Home Appliances, Inc. introduced a completely new automatic washing machine...