Word: household
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...host of state-licensed street vendors, who will be individual entrepreneurs like the pushcart peddlers from Naples to Nanking. Items planned for 1947: 375 million buttons, 35 million yards of cloth, 23 million pairs of stockings and 18.5 million pairs of boots and shoes, 4,000 tons of household utensils, 500,000 beds, $100 million worth of furniture. The million extra tons of food include 100,000 tons of milk, 27,000 of meat and fish, 20,000 of mushrooms, 5,000 of butter and 180,000 boxes of eggs...
Beautilities. But Dr. Schlumbohm's gadgets are not for morons only. Nor are they cheap. His dozen-odd household appliances, which are the only inventions he manufactures, look like no utensils in the ordinary kitchen, have been frequently exhibited by the Museum of Modern Art. He thinks this only natural because "If you make a thing as simple and efficient as possible, it is bound to be beautiful." And, he has also found, highly profitable. His sales of Chemex ($3.50 to $12) reached $200,000 last year. His Tubadipdrips ($7.50 and $9.50) and Tempots ($135) should boost this year...
...Household Cavalry on gleaming chestnut horses flashed sabers, glinting silver. Behind them came the royal coach, drawn by four grey horses, with the driver and two footmen splashes of vivid scarlet above the deep maroon of the coachwork. Through the windows the crowds could see the King in an admiral's uniform, sitting erect and wooden-faced under his gold-peaked cap, while the Queen, with her plump, pink-and-white face, powder blue hat, grey-fawn furs, was all smiles and gracious waves. The Welsh Guards Band played God Save the King as the coach went...
Choice sirloin and T-bone steaks cost 20? a lb., prime rib roasts 15? a lb., chickens and lobsters 30? apiece. Excellent Haitian coffee was 12? a lb., sugar 6¢:, and there was no limit on anything. As a matter of course, an American household was staffed by five competent servants-houseboy, cook, maid, yardboy and laundress. Total monthly wages: around...
...higher pay, as the Duke thought, but union recognition ot their Union of General and Municipal Workers. Recalling the recent triumph of organized labor at Buckingham Palace (TIME, June 3), one banner in the Savoy Hotel's picket line proclaimed: "What's good enough for the royal household should be good enough for the Savoy...