Word: haircuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week family budgets across the U.S. began to feel the impact. In Seattle barbers boosted haircut prices 25? (to $[.75). In Detroit the board of education warned that hot meals would cost the city's 272,000 schoolchildren 2? more this fall. Milk prices rose a penny a quart in Des Moines; bread jumped 2? a loaf in San Francisco. Diamonds were up 10% in Dallas. Clothing in some areas is going up 71%. Food also is expected to go higher, largely as a result of higher handling costs. Said a Memphis executive: "We're paying more...
Bathroom Phone. Last week Harry Truman walked from his office to the barbershop of Frank Spina, who served as guidon for Captain Harry of Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, in World War I. Truman was especially careful about his haircut; he had an appointment in Chicago next week, and he wanted to look his best...
Must you continually bombard us with all these Italian actresses? Your July 9 issue continues to show Lollobrigida & Co. Without the names to identify, they all look alike-with their bosoms trussed high, their black eyes, sullen lips and the inevitable Italian haircut. Would certainly be most interesting to see these same Italian glamour gals by the time they arrive at the ripe age of 40. We would undoubtedly beg for the forgotten All-America girl who looks just as good...
Snap Judgment. In St. Louis, Edwin Balk was fined $500 after his barber testified in court: "He asked for a short haircut, and that's what I gave him. After I got through, he looked in the mirror and yelled, 'You've cut off my sideburns,' then jumped out of the chair, threw the apron m my face and twisted my arm round until it broke...
Oats for the Mind. Lawyer Douglas found, like others before him, that the materialistic paradise of the workers is still pretty much a promise of pie in the dialectical sky. A haircut, he reports appreciatively, costs only 40?-but in 1955 the average Russian male got exactly five razor blades. A Russian family eats meat no more than once a week. A worker can buy a refrigerator for $165, but his annual income is about $600. Six families sometimes share a kitchen and a toilet...