Word: dor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nothing is funnier to practical Americans than a gadget that seems almost too practical to bear. Like the first model T, the Murphy In-A-Dor bed. which folded up into a closet, was laughed into fame, and so into the annals of genuine Americana. Millions who never owned a Murphy bed had seen Charlie Chaplin wrestling vainly with the contraption in One A.M., roared with glee when it finally flipped him into the closet. William L. Murphy, who invented the bed in the early 1900s, stoutly insisted that no such outrage ever happened in real life. But sales soared...
Murphy Workshop. A fold-up workshop for do-it-yourselfers has been put on sale by Dor-Bak Corp., Chicago. Measuring only 18 by 40 by 7 in. when closed, the workshop includes a workbench that supports 300 Ibs., heavy-duty electrical outlets, a peg board for hanging up tools. Price...
CAMPBELL SOUP CO., privately owned for all its 85 years, will soon put up stock for public sale. The shares (number and price have not yet been fixed) will be marketed by the First Boston Corp. for the multimillion dollar estate of John T. Dor-ranee, Campbell's owner...
...Operational guided-missile squadrons, stationed in Germany (TIME, Jan. 25), ready to use the ground-to-ground Mata dor as necessary...
Commuters, unable to get trains, jammed the buses and trackless trolleys which were added in the emergency. Additional streetcars were run from Harvard Square and Andrew Square, carrying passengers from Cambridge to the Massachusetts Avenue station, and from Dor chester to Park...