Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With an eye on the success of the automatic laundry, appliance makers have produced a dry-cleaning machine that operates on the same coin-in-the-slot, done-while-you-wait system as the automatic washer. The new machines can take an 8-lb. to 10-lb. load (for example: two skirts, three sweaters, a wool dress, a child's snowsuit, a woman's jacket and a man's jacket), dry-clean the works for $1.50 to $2. Average price for the same job at a standard dry cleaner's: $8.35. Twenty-three U.S. appliance makers...
...point where most other animals would be fighting for life." As for chicken bones, cats can handle them better than dogs can. Baths, another idea that makes old-fashioned cat keepers cluck with horror, not only help a cat with the endless job of keeping clean but also minimize the problem of "hair ball"-a nugget of hair that forms in the stomach as the result of all that licking and preening...
...Forward Look) Exner, 52, resigned to make room for Elwood Paul Engel, 44, who was netted in a raid on Ford's styling staff. A disciple of flamboyant ex-Ford Stylist George Walker (TIME cover, Nov. 4, 1957), New Jersey-born Designer Engel was largely responsible for the clean, squared-off 1961 Lincoln. Chrysler President Lynn Townsend, who desperately wants the same golden touch for his cars, has ordered Engel to report directly to him to make sure that no corporate roadblocks are thrown up against the new stylist...
Freshmen who waited until Sunday to exchange their dirty linen for clean sheets at the HSA depot in Mower A basement were sadly disappointed. The depot manager arrived for his usual 6 to 8 p.m. shift only to find the door locked, reportedly by a fire inspector on his Saturday rounds in the Yard...
Hunt had already earned Time magazine's title, "clean up man" when he arrived in Chicago in 1947. The Chicago school system was abominable. Textbooks and building were antiquated; many of its teachers held only temporary certificates, and non-teaching jobs were given out as political patronage. Teachers' salaries were low and the city's high schools were in danger of being taken off the accredited list. Here was the kind a $25,000 a year salary to go with it. Hunt was the first person to have the title General Superintendent, but along with the title went the responsibility...