Word: grinders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American journeymen-artists practiced genre painting with extraordinary success. The rising middle class of the period paid well and cheerfully for competent pictures of the things to be seen through their own windows: Drawing a Bead on a Woodchuck, Cornhusking, The German Immigrant Enquiring His Way, The Organ Grinder, The Sailor's Wedding. All that seems quaint about such pictures helped give them a soothing familiarity in their own time. The passing generations form an outlandish costume parade, and a century hence, Norman Rockwell's modern genre pictures will also look quaint...
...room in the basement. While it serves the usual fare (at a little less cost) of espresso, capuccino, mokka and assorted pastries, it adds a few specialties of its own like Cranberry Punch. The coffee served at the Cafe Pamplona is absolutely fresh. Miss Yanguas has installed a coffee grinder as well as an espresso machine, and fresh coffee is ground for every three or four cups ordered...
...Roll Grinder Daniel Kuntz of U.S. Steel Corp. explained: "What the hell good is a raise? Everything goes up, and Uncle Sam takes 25% anyway. The important thing is to keep prices down." Added another workman: "If we get a raise, the merchants and the landlords raise prices to the equivalent of what we're getting. If we strike, we lose what we make in the raise anyway, so we lose twice...
Pork Chop Hill (Melville; United Artists). Silent over the battlefield hang the stars of a clear spring night. Suddenly a loudspeaker, shockingly close, blares among the forward positions: "WELCOME TO THE MEAT GRINDER!" The U.S. infantrymen, slogging up the lower slopes of Pork Chop Hill in central Korea, skip a heartbeat and a stride, and then move grimly forward-^into the meat grinder. And the audience moves with them into this heart-racking film translation of S.L.A. Marshall's classic report on Pork Chop Hill (TIME, Nov. 19, 1956)-that inopportune Thermopylae where the American fighting man wrote...
...plastic plumbing to save more money, along with an aerobic sewage-disposal system (including garbage grinder) that greatly reduces water use. A newly designed toilet needs only 1 gal. of water at a time compared to 6 gal. for current models. Electrical wiring through the house comes in a preassembled package, ready for much faster installation that cuts high-cost labor...