Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their New Britain, Conn, plant last week., appliance-makers Landers, Frary & Clark (Universal Appliances) were busy with a new vacuum cleaner which had one radical change from their old model-the price. Instead of retailing at $79.95, the new model sold...
...price of its upright vacuum cleaner (new price: $44.95) by such changes as a wood-and-metal for an all-metal handle. G.E. was about to bring out a new dishwasher that would not require permanent plumbing fixtures, thus abolishing installation costs running to $125 on current models. G.E. had also eliminated a soaking gadget on a new-model automatic washing machine, thereby saving the buyer $70 (price: $299.50). After two years of experiments and a $2,500,000 outlay for development, Bendix Home Appliances, Inc. introduced a completely new automatic washing machine for $179.95-$70 under its cheapest...
This was simply a compilation of a series of classified-secret tests run off early this year between the huge now B-36 and various service model jet-fighters. The B-36, a six-engined, 5000-mile range heavy bomber, was the Air Force's big bid for strategic bombing supremacy; as such, it had come in for lots of criticism. It was too slow, too big; it could not maneuver. At one time there was a serious move to halve the B-36 contracts. This was squelched when the Air Force appeared happily bearing the results of its tests...
...waits long enough in the Harvard Square station of the Metropolitan Transit Authority's system will see one of the MTA's "new" trains. It has a coat of shining orange paint, fan ventilators and padded seats; but underneath is the outmoded hulk of a 1926 transit car model. In general, that's what is wrong with the entire MTA set-up--it is only a veneer, covering up but not eliminating the financial structure of the Boston Elevated Railway Company that it replaced...
...Cinemactor Clark Gable, victim of many a make-up man and wardrobe mistress, found that he could also dish it out. At a Manhattan party, his impromptu costume designing bested the efforts of Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. and Violinist Nathan Milstein. Artistically flinging yard goods around bathing-suited models, Gable achieved outstanding success by making Model Charlotte Hanker appear to be having just as much...