Word: household
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...production quota, increased under a speedup bonus system introduced in January, Josef gets extra ration cards entitling him to buy a pound and a half of bacon, a pound of coffee, a half-pound of sugar, two bottles of schnapps and 100 cigarets, as well as some clothing and household goods. Other Germans in the Ruhr have not even been able to buy their flour ration since Christmas...
...Connor Leighton wrote throbbing serial stories with titles like Fires of Love and Sealed Lips. A copy boy waited in the hallway of her house in St. John's Wood, London, to dash with the latest installments to Lord Northcliffe's Daily Mail. The income kept her household going: six servants, four dogs, three children, a secretary and a husband...
Babushka, We Go! Next morning, the story was on Manhattan front pages. (Not the tabloids, of course: there was no sex angle.) Waves of friends and reporters eddied through the Rodzinskis' Park Avenue apartment. They found the household as gaily confused as a Polish wedding party: the telephone and doorbell jingled merrily, Artur poured wine, vivacious Halina sliced Polish pastries...
Consumer industries, notably those making food and household products, were not far behind the basic producers. In the last quarter many cashed in heavily on OPA's death. Typical was Procter & Gamble: for the six months ending December 31 it netted $16,300,341 v. $9,456,033 in the same period of 1945. (And P. & G. had laid aside $14,500,000 to take care of any inventory loss if prices dropped...
...Macloud was impatient, but at 80, having bossed the Macloud household for 50-odd years, she knew a trick or two. That evening in St. Louis, while waiting for her eldest, son to call, she wore her grey silk dress and looked as calm as Whistler's mother. The lamp over her chair was lit, but her eyes were closed and her head was tilted back, "as if some beneficent rays were reaching her from the 60-watt bulb...