Word: footrest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city man has been working out side, and his feet are cold. He takes off his boots, leans back in his chair, and props up his feet on the Glenwood's footrest. Yeast works in the bread and in the city man's mind. He decides to build a solar house. He's going to out-Dubin Dubin. Out-Butler Butler. When he's a very old man, too creaky to cut and split eight cords of wood a year, he's going to stay warm. Damn them all! ?John Skow
...adept at copying that it set some kind of Japanese record for chutzpah. Its first models were almost exact duplicates of the chairs produced by the leading U.S. manufacturer, Chicago's Emil J. Paidar Co. In fact, the parts were interchangeable. Thus, if an arm or footrest broke, Takara's distributors in the U.S. simply picked up replacements from Paidar, eliminating the need for expensive shipping or an even costlier service network...