Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...difficult for a woman to have an abortion performed under operating-room conditions. For this reason, and for reasons of fear and ignorance, nearly 5,000 women die each year at the hands of the nonprofessionals to whom they have turned; these criminal abortionists often do their work on kitchen tables and the back seats of cars, are almost weekly headlined in the tabloids: ABORTIONIST SCARED, LEAVES GIRL TO DIE, Or BODY OF ABORTION VICTIM FOUND IN PARK...
Because hydrogenation of vegetable oils-to keep spreads and shortenings fresh and solid at kitchen temperature-saturates them to varying degrees, Procter & Gamble Co. has spent millions of dollars on research and on revamping its manufacturing process to bring out the new Crisco, only 25% saturated, 44% to 50% neutral monounsaturated, and the rest polyunsaturated. New Crisco, says P. & G., has double the linoleic acid of the old formula and of competing brands as well. General Mills, Inc. is marketing a safflower cooking oil named "Saff-o-life" which, its ads say, is "38% higher in polyunsaturates than any leading...
...Aeolian Music Rolls of Glendale. Calif., joined the roll-making ranks 1½ years ago, is currently turning out 1.500 rolls a day. In Palisades Park. N.J., ex-Tugboat Captain John Duffy, 39, who deals in both new and rebuilt player pianos, has seen his business grow from a kitchen-and-basement operation to a 14-man organization in four years. Duffy grossed $220,000 in 1961 and expects to go to $500.000 this year...
Most of the Hutchins products are finished in the kitchen of a brown stucco house in which violins, violas and cellos are piled under tables, filed away in secretaries, and hang from curtain rods and moldings. Mrs. Hutchins tests her newly devised instruments in a basement lab full of measuring equipment that she mastered only after several years of electronics study. The biggest of her new in struments, the large bass, and the small est, the treble, are still causing trouble. It would take a seven-foot man to play the large bass unless she can somehow alter its proportions...
...parody of a bad translation of Homer: "At last the leaves are fallen; then do men their duty to the tree-crop, rite singular to towns, to which only fathers and sons may be initiate: leaf burning . . . Wives and mothers watch, doing dishes, their heads and shoulders oracular in kitchen light...