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Word: cookers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fine china and another of flat silverware, a coffee brewer, a carpet, a vacuum cleaner, an electric washing machine, a ten-piece mahogany bedroom set, a gas stove, an electric stove, a fitted calf handbag, an automatic ironer, four end tables, a kolinsky scarf, a pressure cooker, six pieces of leather luggage, a year's supply of bed linen, an electric mixer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Mrs. Parrett's Day | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...wife lay In a double bed, and she looked desperately weary. But the sheets on the bed were clean. There was a white cloth on the table and flowers in the window, and the baby thrashed around happily in a clean pink woolen suit. There was an electric cooker-"The food from the kitchens has become a great deal worse recently," the mother said-and the clothes were hung neatly in the closet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: The Will to Live | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...nearly 200 manufacturers. Among the biggest are Rowe (cigarets), Du Grenier (cigarets and candy), Mills (unrelated to Bert E.) Novelty (Coca-Cola and familiar "one-arm-bandit gambling machines") and Automatic Canteen (snacks). The industry has lately attracted such companies as Bell Aircraft (coin changer) and General Electric (hotdog cooker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Silent Salesmen | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

...rough-lumber worktable at which Dr. Schlumbohm, 50, a large (225 lbs.), hearty man with a bellowing laugh, has worked out 1,000 inventions. Last week he was fondling two newborn brain children: the Tubadipdrip, a combination coffeemaker-teamaker and cocktail mixer, and the Tempot, a combination fireless cooker-ice cream freezer-frozen food locker-foot bath-thermos chest-dishwasher-air conditioner and bachelor's chef. They will probably make their way without trouble in the commercial world, just like Dr. Schlumbohm's (rhymes with slum bum) other oddly named gadgets. Some of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Tubadipdrips & Tempots | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...electric range, with built-in pressure cooker, broiler, toaster, etc., each with electronic temperature control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Kitchen Front | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

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