Word: mullikin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall tales that advertising men have been telling housewives about the labor-saving wonders of the mechanical "world of tomorrow" have been enough to make realists see red. Sidney A. Mullikin, sales and advertising manager, and Thomas L. Hand, formerly product designer for The Schaible Co. (small plumbing fixtures) of Cincinnati, have been much annoyed by these streamlined taradiddles. Seized one day with a desire to debunk the false prophets, Mullikin & Hand planned a reductio ad absurdum, their own radar-electronic "kitchen of tomorrow," and showed a sketch of it to their boss. Schaible was so tickled that it rounded...
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