Word: freezers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Fish from the Freezer. Uncomfortable the viewers most certainly were. Albright, who was tapped by Hollywood to portray Dorian Gray in his penultimate desuetude, collects adjectives like "loathsome," "gruesome," "morbid," "putrescent" and "repulsive" the way other painters collect gold medals. But, he protests, "in any part of life you find something either growing or disintegrating. Let's say I'm equally interested in growth and decay...
...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...
Died. Charles Seabrook, 83, pioneer in frozen foods, a New Jersey farmer who in 1930 packed lima beans in dry ice, after finding that they thawed fresh as ever, teamed up with Seafood Freezer Clarence Birdseye to perfect the quick-freezing of vegetables, icing away everything from spinach to succotash under 150 labels (best known: Snow Crop, Seabrook Farms), to build a $25 million annual business; after a long illness; in Deerfield...