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Whirlpool last week introduced nationally what it plugs as the first major new home appliance since the clothes dryer hit the market 30 years ago. It is a product for the age of ecology: the Trash Masher. The machine will gobble up 60 gal. of garbage, then spit it out in a neatly packaged, nicely deodorized 9-in. by 16-in. by 17-in. bundle...
...Masher, which looks like a kissing cousin to a small filing cabinet, has been under development for three years It is now deemed completely safe. A key-presumably kept out of reach of children and would-be suicides-must be turned, a button pushed and the door closed before it will work. The machine had a successful test run last fall in Houston, Atlanta and New Orleans, few prospective customers seemed upset over the somewhat stiff purchase price...
...requires no special plumbing or wiring and runs on standard household current. Garbage is loaded into a bag in the 17-in.-high waste drawer at the bottom of the 15-in.-wide appliance. Each time the Masher is filled, which in most households would be daily, a spray device automatically squirts a deodorizing and disinfecting liquid on the trash. Then the key is turned on and the start button pushed. Brute force does the job. The waste is compressed-by a ram that for an instant exerts a force of one ton-into a solid, bag-enclosed brick...
...principle of the Trash Masher," says Whirlpool, "has been used in auto junkyards* but never before in the kitchen. It could cut a city garbage-disposal budget by one-fourth if widely used." Anticipating such use, Whirlpool has switched production at one of its factories from washers to Mashers, is manufacturing...
...veterans who keep up on their casualty rates, it is the "hard-luck" battalion. And the hardest-luck platoon in the hard-luck battalion is the 3rd Platoon of A Company. Last January all of its men were killed when their C-123 crashed near An Khe before Operation Masher. Last week the unlucky 3rd got it again...