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Refreshment Stand. An office drinking fountain that also supplies steaming hot water for mixing instant coffee, tea, cocoa and soup has been put on sale by Ebco Manufacturing Co., of Columbus, Ohio. A blue button operates either a cold-water bubbler or a faucet; a red one turns on the hot water faucet...
Last week Mansure cast a baleful eye on leaky water faucets and warned: "A dripping faucet [wastes] 30? a month." Wastebaskets also caught his eye. Wrote Mansure: "When papers have missed the wastebasket and desks are littered, the cleaning operation takes as much as 75% more time per unit cleaned." His newest order: "Keep your desk neat, and your aim at the wastebasket true...
Portable Pig. A portable, electric disposal unit that sits in a sink and disposes of 1½ quarts of garbage in a minute or two was announced by James. Inc.. of Independence, Kans., maker of portable dishwashers. Water from the faucet pours through the top of the lightweight machine while blades churn the refuse, which is funneled down the drain. The James garbage disposer cleans itself, will not run with the top open. Price...
...start from the war itself. During their service years, millions of Americans learned for the first time how to repair radios, engines and dozens of other machines. Housewives who had been punch-press operators, welders and electronics technicians found that it was no trick to fix a leaky faucet or paper a room, especially as it was hard to hire anyone to do it. Doing it herself was also less expensive, since the wages of carpenters and plumbers had jumped far higher than those of many other workers. Says one do-it-yourselfer: "A $1.25-an-hour bookkeeper...
...open by light pressure on the front panel. A new appliance provides a choice of cold water, ice cubes or crushed ice. For easy reading, recipes are flashed onto a screen when they are placed in a photographic viewer. The sink provides water at any temperature from a single faucet. An electronic oven rises at the press of a button, bakes potatoes in five minutes or roasts a turkey in 45. Even the flour-sifter is motor-driven...