Word: kits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fascinating tour de force, far tougher on its two actors than Broadway's current Two for the Seesaw, the play was further proof that Kit Cornell is still the most enthusiastic road-show actress in the business-and proof once more that Broadway is not the only satisfaction the U.S. has to offer its players...
...Kit. In Titusville, Pa., a for-sale ad in the Herald offered wool blankets, furniture, a shotgun, a wedding ring...
...tiny (672 lbs.), gas-saving (85 miles per gal.) bubble of a car that seats a family of four and goes as fast as 63 m.p.h. Lowest-priced auto at the show, the Nobel will sell for $998 complete, or $895 in a do-it-yourself, semi-knocked-down kit assembled in 100 man hours...
...Mess Kit. In Visalia, Calif., police looked for a man who walked into Tootle's 216 Club, ate and paid for a steak dinner, then ran out the door with his knife, fork and spoon...
...washing machine. It sold well, but his first big hit did not come until 1950, when Glaser put out a copy of the old Maxwell auto, made famous by Comedian Jack Benny, sold 800,000. Glaser added the battleship Missouri (still the most successful, with 2,040,000 kits sold), launched his own 89? version of the atomic submarine Nautilus in 1953 six months before General Dynamics Corp. Other bestsellers this year: the Bomarc antiaircraft missile (457,000 kits) and the Talos missile (443,000 kits sold since its October introduction). All are intended to be "tough but rewarding...