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...machines, about double prewar production. The automobile industry crowded its throttle; 4,794,000 cars and trucks rolled off the lines. It was a gain of 55% over 1946, and 34% above 1939's production. The U.S. production machine also had time to turn out a flood of knick-knacks-from bubble gum and atomic rings to a doormat that automatically scrubs shoes, rings the doorbell and turns on the porch light. The U.S. alone turned out well over 50% of the known industrial production of the world compared with 30% before...
Until the happy day when vitamin-coated gum-or some other near-magic-can stop tooth decay for. good, Pittsburgh's Dr. I. Franklin Miller suggests that dentists apply a smooth brand of psychology along with the drill. Dr. Miller recommends: waiting rooms full of knick-knacks to divert waiters; all the instruments of torture hidden; soft music, coffee and cigarets during "ten-minute breaks" in the grinding and probing...
...past 17 years on a ramshackle farm in Lancaster County, Pa., two aging Mennonites, Henry ("Henner") and George Landis have collected old knick-knacks from nearby farms and hamlets. Everything their thrifty neighbors had to sell, from cracked millstones to old whiskey bottles, the Landis brothers bought and stored away...
...book together (Art in Everyday Life) which has long been a bible to home economics classes from Maine to the Middle West and has been translated into Chinese. Their book tells how to choose colors in rugs and draperies, how to arrange furniture in a room, how to balance knick-knacks on a mantelpiece and food on a plate, how to dress tastefully, how to fix flowers, frame pictures, choose men's clothes, how to spot a good thing, from a well-designed fly swatter to a well-planned city. Its pages fairly bulge with pictures of good...
...will take practically anything as security. He's been here a long time, and he knows a lot about Harvard and its doings. His large establishment used to be a veritable storehouse for all sorts of stuff. Its interior was laden with clothes and china and silverware and odd knick-knacks. Some of the articles weren't much good, but then they weren't priced very highly either. The place had a simple and direct dignity--not bustling and impersonal like the Coop, but intimate and quiet, with just a tinge of secrecy--not big like Widener, but more like...