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...renovated for anywhere from $500 to $15,000. The lower price pays for about twelve running feet of cabinets and counter tops, a sink, but no appliances. A $15,000 kitchen would include custom-built wood cabinets, stainless steel sink and counter tops, dishwasher, disposer, freezer, refrigerator, washer, dryer, an electric oven in the wall, a fireplace, special cabinets for trays, bottles, cutlery and vegetables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kitchen Comeback | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

Sprinkle Wrinkle. General Electric Co. brought out a clothes dryer that also sprinkles dry clothes in preparation for ironing. The sprinkling unit is a metal cylinder which squirts water while the clothes are being tumbled in the drum. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Nov. 9, 1953 | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

...easy life can be-if she has the right gadgets. Fashionably dressed to look the way a housewife would like to look if she only had time, Betty crawls into bed to show off her electric blanket, washes clothes and dishes, plays How Dry I Am on her electric dryer, and peers into ovens-all without disturbing a lock of Her carefully curled hair. Betty does this for $50,000 a year and Westinghouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Atomic-Power Men | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

Months after the charging of the first still, an operator opens the last centrifuge (like a housewife's spin-dryer) at the far end of the 100,000-sq. ft. production area. A label on the wall proclaims: "KE Pure" (KE is Merck's intramural abbreviation for cortisone). The bottom and sides of the centrifuge are thickly coated with a clammy white powder. From the looks of it, it might be talcum or aspirin. But it is far more precious: 35 lbs. of KE pure is enough to make 635,000 tablets of 25 milligrams each, enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What the Doctor Ordered | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

...JOHN DRYER New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 16, 1952 | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

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