Word: freedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Electric Living. Hotpoint's expansion has freed it from dependence on G.E. for basic components for many of its products, allowed it to bring out its own designs. Despite talk of overproduction, Nance thinks the market for appliances has hardly been scratched. The refrigerator, he points out, has already reached 90% of its potential market, but the electric range has reached only 21%. "The automatic washing machine had the greatest postwar growth of all appliances but has saturated only 13% of the market. The electrical dishwasher has reached only a little more than 1,000,000 homes...
...expected to just stand around and watch. The student chose to fight. The two bulls locked antlers and were snared together for two weeks* before being spied from the air by a patrol plane. Rescuers arrived as encircling wolves began to close in, found the big moose dead and freed the student, which pranced off to his hard-won cows, a graduate...
There was no evidence that Peggy Ellsworth was using dope, and she was freed. But the Tribune and Reporter Browning dumped her, fast. Norma Lee, "disillusioned . . . and also much wiser," wrote a red-faced story for Page One. It was too late to stop the second installment of her Sunday series (which told how sharpers prey on beauty queens). It had already been printed and appeared this week. Said Newshen Browning: "I've finally learned why hardboiled reporters get that...
...East to headlong, irresponsible nationalism. The great colonial powers had long preached that a people has to be emotionally, intellectually and economically ready before it can safely run its own house. In its self-righteous '303, the U.S. derided such talk as hypocritical. But troubles in such suddenly freed nations as the Philippines, Burma and Indonesia have made the U.S. think again...
...Writes Author Frank: "Bolivar strove to be Moses, Madison and Jefferson to a people not yet mature enough to produce them: this was his greatness and his tragedy." Part of this greatness was his clearheaded realization of how he had failed. Wrote Bolivar: "It will be said that I freed the New World, but it will not be said that I achieved the stability of welfare of any of the nations...