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...look over the crops or attack the weeds that infest the vegetable garden behind the house. He grows nearly every fruit and vegetable* in the seed catalogue. Mabel, who can hardly use one-fifth of what he grows, has a surplus problem of her own. She has a big freezer and a cellar room for her preserves, but the bounty from Charlie's garden overflows both...
...able to get very far away from it all. Chris Craft, the General Motors of the powerboat industry, now finds that 70% of its customers who want 28-ft. yachts and more also want and are willing to pay for a whole galaxy of luxury accessories. Among them: refrigerator-freezer, $1,250; four-burner stove with oven and broiler, $365; deluxe hot-water system with mixer faucets and spray hose, $1,210; electrically pumped shower, $450; automatic pilot...
...over and tried to herd them out the door. The man, ashen with embarrassment, insisted, "I don't know this woman, I've never seen her before in my life." "You're my husband and you know it," she whined. "We've got three children at home and the freezer's empty. How am I supposed to get home? I haven't got any money." Even after they left the room, her strident complaints could be heard from outside the door...
...regular salaries, many American families also fatten their pocketbooks with second and even third incomes-and most of those are used as discretionary income. One-third of U.S. married women hold jobs, and many wage earners moonlight in order to build on an extra room or buy a new freezer. The consumer can make the economy rise by trading up from hamburger to steak, buying an air conditioner to replace the window fan or taking that long-planned trip to Europe. By the same token, he has the power to slow or reverse the economic advance by deciding to postpone...
...worked for 21 years, he selected each brick from a yard in Aurora, added a baby shoe lovingly plucked from an ash heap in Warrenville, and topped it off with a corset that belonged to his mother. One still life required him to keep fish in the freezer for three months, taking them out for three hours a day. "As soon as they began to thaw, I would stick them back in the freezer," he explains. Title of this work? Ah God, Herrings, Buoys, the Glittering Sea. Why? Confesses Albright brightly, "It sounded better than A Bunch of Fish...